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by keeglin 1547 days ago
Credit card tokenization is a thing, and commonly used in retail. It leaves the last four digits of the number intact to allow searching for transactions from the POS; but other numbers are scrambled. Credit card data is otherwise stored in the POS systems tokenized. It takes all teeth out of credit card data for PCI requirements.

In this case, the tokenization is the measure itself.