SAN FRANCISCO — Every once in a while, an email or Facebook posting makes the rounds sounding alarms over the supposed danger of used hotel card keys. To stay safe, the reasoning goes, travelers must ...

A few years ago, a rumor made the rounds on e-mail and the Web that hotels were encoding room key cards with guests' personal information, and that any prospective identity thief with a card reader ...

Computerworld and MagTek tested 100 card keys gathered in the fall from the hotel and resort operations listed below. Each card was scanned using a MagTek swipe-card reader that has a USB interface ...

It’s only fitting that readers of this blog have an early look at Monday’s feature story about whether hotel card keys contain any personal information, since it was your comments that prompted me to ...

Technology that allows hotel guests to use their phones as room keys is expanding, taking aim at those environmentally unfriendly plastic cards. By Karen Schwartz The demonstration using the cellphone ...