The US is one of the few remaining places where credit cards rely on magnetic stripes rather than a microchip to store and transmit account information. Magnetic stripes are easy to steal information from and to counterfeit, but that's next to impossible with chips. Tell retailers, banks, and any place that you use your credit card that you want to have chips on our credit cards NOW!
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