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It borders on "tin foil hat" territory but the vulnerablility is real. Many credit cards these days have an RFID (radio frequency identification) chip or "tag" embedded inside. It contains your credit card number and other personal details. The chips are "passive" meaning not powered, and in order to send a signal it must be placed in front of a reader at close range like a few inches. Plus the information is encrypted. But if a hacker got close enough to your wallet and was equipped with a special scanning device, the number COULD be stolen and read later. It got a couple of companies thinking about how to solve the problem, however unlikely or minor.

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Tech analyst Larry Magid writes about a new ruling against the 1998 Children's Online Protection Act. He was an expert witness on behalf of the ACLU in an early trial involving the Act.

"My job was to explain to the judge that there are other methods parents can use to control what their kids do on the Web."

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