A quick search on “Convio lawsuit” in Google turns up:
http://snipurl.com/25sx1 [dockets_justia_com]
The lawsuit was filed on April 22, 2008 and the plaintiff is Scott D.H. Redman. Digging further turned up this PDF document of the filing.
The plaintiff’s claim is that Convio keeps sending receipts with credit card expiration dates on them to donors in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. I don’t have any idea what the merits of this suit are but it looks like a fairly small violation to me.
I’m wondering now how widespread this practice is and what kind of effect this will have on the way donations processors are going to send receipts for tax purposes to donors. Does your nonprofit show credit card expiration dates on donations receipts?
UPDATE (4/28/2008): To make it less ambiguous, I inserted “credit card” in front of expiration dates. Thanks to Peter Gulka for the suggestion! Also, I hear from my source in Blackbaud that they do not display credit card expiration dates or show five or more credit card numbers in any of their Internet products. Can anyone confirm that the other donation processing systems don’t show credit card expiration dates? Jon? Stacie?
UPDATE (5/5/2008): Kintera also confirms that it does not show credit card numbers or expiration dates in any of receipts they send.
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