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Even the President atbyduringforfrominofonoutoverwith the United States atbyduringforfrominofonoutoverwith America has embarrassing moments atbyduringforfrominofonoutoverwith credit cards. Barack Obama had one last month. A restaurant cashier told him she couldn't accept his credit card. He was having dinner atbyduringforfrominofonoutoverwith an expensive restaurant atbyduringforfrominofonoutoverwith an upmarket area atbyduringforfrominofonoutoverwith New York. The President told reporters: "I went to a restaurant atbyduringforfrominofonoutoverwith the U.N. General Assembly, and my credit card was rejected….It turned atbyduringforfrominofonoutoverwith, I guess, I don't use it enough." He added that the cashier thought his card was being used atbyduringforfrominofonoutoverwith illegal purposes. He explained that he did not have enough cash to pay atbyduringforfrominofonoutoverwith the restaurant bill. Luckily, his wife paid the bill using her credit card and they could leave the restaurant.

Mr Obama told his credit card story atbyduringforfrominofonoutoverwith Friday while he was signing a new law to protect consumers atbyduringforfrominofonoutoverwith identity theft. In particular, the new law tightens the controls atbyduringforfrominofonoutoverwith credit cards. Obama said: "Even I'm affected atbyduringforfrominofonoutoverwith this." Identity theft is a growing problem all atbyduringforfrominofonoutoverwith the world. Officials atbyduringforfrominofonoutoverwith the USA think that 100 million people have been affected atbyduringforfrominofonoutoverwith the past year because someone stole their private information online. The new law is called "BuySecure". It wants the credit card industry to change atbyduringforfrominofonoutoverwith cards with magnetic strips to those with microchips and PIN numbers. Magnetic strips are old technology. It is easy atbyduringforfrominofonoutoverwith hackers to read them and put the information atbyduringforfrominofonoutoverwith other cards.