Payment Card: Visa Canada

Visa Canada: The poll by Visa Canada found that 45 per cent of this demographic group also shared their payment card information via email, loaned their cards and didn't keep their PIN confidential, according to Times Colonist. "Yet they're really not totally aware of who has access to this information and who else can be seeing this information and what would be done with it," he said from Toronto and MONTREAL - Many young Canadians are "oversharing" their financial information, says a new survey that found nearly half of 18- to 34-year-old respondents admitting they take risks like texting their credit or debit card numbers. This behaviour mirrors similar habits of sharing personal information on social media sites, said Gord Jamieson, head of payment system risk at the credit card company. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.