Perhaps the greatest thing about information cards is that they might finally free us from the purpose-defeating and idiotic practice of using Social Security numbers as a nigh-universal identifier.

Precautions can reduce the risk of identity theft when sending card info by mail, email, text and other methods. Many or all of the products on this page are from partners who compensate us when you ...

Millions of businesses process credit card transactions every day, and those businesses need a way to check to see if a credit card is active or not or if it's a fraudulent card. The issuing ...

Back in July I told you about the formation of the Information Card Foundation (see “The call for a new identity standard”). In announcing the new group, Executive Director Charles Andres was quick to ...