今日のテキスト BOOSTING CREDIT CARD SECURITY

Japanese government officials want retailers to take an extra measure to tackle the growing problem of data theft from credit cards. They plan to require stores nationwide to install IC chip readers.
People steal data from credit cards to make fake ones, but it's harder for them to do that if the information is on IC chips. Credit cards with traditional magnetic strips are easier to hack. The industry ministry now plans to revise legislation to make it mandatory for stores to install the IC chip readers as early as 2018.
Ministry officials hope to boost credit-card security by 2020. That's when Tokyo hosts the Olympic and Paralympic Games. IC chip readers are already common in most other industrialized countries. Many stores in Japan, though, still rely on magnetic strip-reading devices.