Credit cards – suspension of use
House of Commons: 23.02.04
Margaret Moran: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department
What measures he will take to require credit card companies to remove credit cards from those breaking their contract with such companies by viewing child pornography on the net.
Hilary Benn: Normally it will not be apparent from the information received by a card issuer that a transaction relates to illegal business. However, within the confines of banking law, where a card issuer is alerted to the fact that an offence has been committed by a cardholder, they will take appropriate action under the terms and conditions applying to the use of its card.
The Government do not at this time consider that removing all credit card, debit card, and other non card based forms of payment facilities from an individual convicted of such an offence is the most cost effective or practical way of combating illegal or child abuse images on line.
Source: Hansard 23.2.3
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