Published Works | InsideCounsel | 22 October 2013

ZIP Code Class Actions Expand Into the District of Columbia

One of the more active areas of privacy-related litigation concerns Zone Improvement Plan codes, or "ZIP codes," in use since 1963. Plaintiffs' lawyers have filed a spate of actions alleging that merchants which ask customers to provide their ZIP codes when paying with a credit card violate state statutes designed to protect personal identification information.

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