For decades, hotel guests have been warned about the dangers lurking in their pockets. Keep your room key away from your phone.Don't put it near your credit cards. That magnetic clasp on your purse?It ...

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 ...

The next time you stay in a hotel room, run your fingers under the keycard lock outside your door. If you find a DC power port there, take note: With a few hacker tricks and a handful of cheap ...

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 ...

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 ...