Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV) introduced legislation late last week that will prevent credit cards from using a special merchant category code (MCC) to track sales of guns and ammunition.
Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) and Gov. Bill Lee (R-TN) signed Second Amendment privacy acts this week barring the use of credit card merchant codes to collect data on retail firearm purchasers.
The gvernors of Indiana and Utah signed bills last week to prohibit credit cards from tracking firearm sales information in their states.
Visa, Master Card, and American Express are implementing a special merchant code to track gun and gun-related purchases in California.
Sens. Dick Durbin and Roger Marshall are pushing Joe Biden to weaponize the federal government against opponents of their credit card bill.
The NatWest banking group has announced that Sir Howard Davies will be replaced in the wake of the Nigel Farage debanking scandal.
Apple has launched its “Apple Pay Later” feature that will allow users to pay for purchases in multiple installments. The service encourages Americans to take on more debt with loans for items from $50 to $1,000.
Sens. Bob Menendez and Elizabeth Warren urged the DOJ and Treasury to take action to implement financial tracking of gun and ammunition purchases in the wake of credit card companies’ announcements that they would not do so.
Visa and Mastercard have halted their plans to use a new merchant code to track gun purchases.
Beginning in April 2023, Discover will become the first credit card issuer to track gun purchases made by their cardholders.
The United States Chamber of Commerce is applauding President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the World Bank, former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga.
President Joe Biden has nominated former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga to lead the World Bank — the first time a credit card executive has been chosen for the spot. The nomination comes as Biden pitches himself as a defender of American consumers and an enemy of the banking industry.
Twenty-eight Senate Republicans are zeroing in on Amalgamated Bank over credit card companies’ recent decisions to recategorize gun sales in a way that allows them to be flagged.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) proposed legislation on Wednesday that would bar payment processors from discriminating against gun retailers.
Twenty-four Republican attorneys general sent a letter to Visa, Mastercard, and American Express Tuesday warning them to drop plans to code and compile gun sales in America.
Over 110 GOP Reps. signed a letter sent to Visa, Mastercard, and American Express yesterday, asking why they flip-flopped to support recategorizing gun sales merchant codes and which gun sales they plan to flag as “suspicious.”
Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) torched credit card companies’ move to track gun purchases would lead to a national registry of gun owners, in letters obtained exclusively by Breitbart News.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) warns that credit card companies have positioned themselves to track gun purchases and is asking the big three–Visa, Mastercard, American Express–why they are inserting themselves into Second Amendment issues.
Gun Owners of America (GOA), the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), and the National Rifle Association (NRA) are warning that the credit card companies’ capitulation to Democrat pressure to recategorize gun purchases sets the state for gun sale data collection.
Mastercard praised Congress for the mid-summer passage of gun control following the announcement that major credit card companies are caving to Democrat wishes and recategorizing gun and ammo purchase monikers.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is urging Visa, American Express, and Mastercard to take action and “do their part” for gun control.
Visa and Mastercard have reportedly suspended card payments for advertising on Pornhub and its parent company MindGeek following controversy over whether the adult video websites could be facilitating child pornography.
Vice President Kamala Harris and the White House have announced that American corporations and other groups that have signed on to her “call to action” to stop the ongoing surge of migrants from Central America by pouring money into the Guatemalan, El Salvadoran, and Honduran economies.
Kamala Harris on Monday announced that American corporations and international organizations will invest $1.2 billion in Central America.
After years of censoring conservatives without admitting to political bias, PayPal appears to have formally abandoned political neutrality, entering into a partnership with the far-left Anti Defamation League (ADL) and law enforcement to track and suppress the activities of the alleged far right.
Over 30 women sued Pornhub Thursday and accused the site of violating federal sex trafficking laws, distributing child porn, racketeering, and additional crimes.
Pornhub announced Sunday it suspended all videos not uploaded by verified users as part of a recent policy implementation.
Mastercard and Visa announced they are investigating allegations made in a New York Times column that Pornhub is posting videos that portray child abuse on its adult website.
Payment provider Mastercard announced this week that it is developing various technologies that will allow it to identify customers by their strides, heartbeat, and vein patterns.
Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency has been dealt a major blow as partners eBay, Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe announced in quick succession Friday that they are withdrawing from the project.
Apple is touting its new credit card as a major step forward in the realms of convenience and privacy. But the Apple Card also comes with a major catch: you need an iPhone to pay your bill.
A coalition of far-left political activist organizations known for peddling smears about conservatives held a protest at Mastercard’s annual general meeting (AGM) today, aiming to pressure the international credit card giant to financially blacklist wider sections of the political right. The groups’ proposal to form a “human rights committee” did not sway shareholders, who voted the measure down.
Social media giant Facebook is expected to reveal its new digital cryptocurrency next week, backed by Visa, Mastercard, Uber, and others.
Left-wing activists have forced Mastercard to hold a shareholder vote on the creation of a “human rights committee” that would monitor payments to the “far right,” with a view to cut off disfavored individuals and political groups from receiving money from supporters.
Details have been revealed about Mastercard’s controversial “digital identity” system, which will “bind” your identity to a smartphone or other device, and which has been compared to China’s social credit system and the bleak futurism of Netflix series Black Mirror.
It is the most totalitarian form of blacklisting: not just to be prevented from speaking on a university campus, or to be kicked off social media, but to be shut out of the entire financial system. That is the terrifying new threat to freedom that western societies must now contend with.
American consumers helped the 2018 holiday shopping season be bright as they spent more than $850 billion online and in stores.
The New York Times is pressuring credit card giants to monitor customers’ buying habits and blacklist gun purchases.
Imagine living in a world where a few executives in Silicon Valley, along with a couple of credit card companies, get to control what you say, who you interact with, what causes you can support, whose products you can buy and whether you can run a business.
Internet payment services giant PayPal has blacklisted Infowars from its platform for allegedly promoting “hate and discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions.”
