abstract:The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a proprietary information security standard for organizations that handle cardholder information for the major debit, credit, prepaid, e-purse, ATM, and POS cards.
And, in the payments industry, self-policing is in place through the PCI-DSS (Payment CardIndustryDataSecurityStandard) which, while not a federal law, has become law in some states.