>
>
> General question to all: Should that information also include the
> credit card number used to make the purchase?


Definitely not.  Exposing any personal information like that could get you
sued, unless the user specifically agrees, and even then it better not be a
shrink-wrap licence.
There are bad ways to get on CNN, this is one of them.
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