California May Ban RFID Drivers Licenses

The California Assembly may consider a bill Monday that would BAN RFID CHIPS in California driver's licenses until 2011, giving the state time to consider privacy and security issues. The state Senate has already approved the measure. If the bill passes in the Assembly, it goes to the Governator for signature.

Microsoft Office Reveals Your Secrets Online

John Ivory, who is director of applied research at a company called Dolphin Technology, plans to demonstrate to attendees of the InfowarCon 2007 (September 19-21 in Bethesda, Maryland) how their documents are loaded with SECRETS. Microsoft Office makes it easy to copy and paste Excel data into PowerPoint, then publish those slides online. But all the data in the spreadsheet file, not just the selected bits, are also published. Edits -- cuts, changes, notes, etc. -- in Word are all retained as well. It's an old problem, but Ivory claims the government, as well as private companies, are still publishing their secrets without knowing it.

Reporters Sue HP for Invasion of Privacy

CNET reporters Dawn Kawamoto, Stephen Shankland and Tom Krazit, plus The Associated Press's Rachel Konrad filed five separate lawsuits against HP for SPYING ON THEM VIA THEIR PHONE RECORDS, which HP-retained investigators got by social engineering phone companies.