As noted in this space before, new EMV (Europay/MasterCard/Visa) security standards are slowly coming to credit cards in America. Basically, the card relies on a chip, rather than a magnetic stripe, for its pertinent information, and its information is harder to clone, or hack.
EMVs and Travel
![EMVs and Travel](https://avpsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/DALL·E-2024-01-11-18.06.31-A-modern-traveler-at-an-airport-using-an-EMV-chip-credit-card-at-a-self-service-kiosk.-The-traveler-is-interacting-with-the-terminal-which-displays-a.jpg)