Monday, June 13, 2016

Police can now strip the money right off your card

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/police-can-now-strip-the-money-right-off-your-card-061016.html

Carrying a lot of cash is dangerous. Criminals may take it and so may the cops, who increasingly view having a lot of cash as evidence of wrongdoing. But now, police have added a new twist -- they've started using a scanner that lets them swipe the money right off prepaid cards.
  
The device is called an ERAD -- Electronic Recovery and Access to Data machine, and Oklahoma's state police began using 16 of them last month. Hundreds of other police departments around the country are also using the device but haven't fessed up to it.

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