Privacy and Security Fanatic: Facebook Wants to Issue Your IRL Offline ID & Internet Driver's License
Network World reports: "At the start of this year, it seemed as if Facebook wanted to utilize its identity infrastructure already on millions of websites in order to issue your Internet driver's license. Apparently that wasn't aiming quite high enough, since it now appears as if Facebook has future plans to issue your offline identity cards as well. Facebook filed for a trademark for 'goods and services' to use Facebook on 'cards, namely business cards and non-magnetically encoded identity cards' that could be read by NFC and RFID-enabled devices."

Privacy and Security Fanatic: Visa, MasterCard may take offline buying history and drag it online for targeted ads
Network World reports: Do you carry cash, or do you buy almost everything with a credit card, perhaps with a debit card backed by a credit card firm such a Visa? If you swipe plastic to pay, do you consider your offline transactions to be private or separate from your online life? If you use Visa or MasterCard, then those credit card companies know a great deal about you and would like to start using what they know about your personal purchasing history to throw targeted online ads at you.

My Way News - PayPal announces online shopping login service
My Way News reports: "PayPal, eBay's online payment service, announced a new service Wednesday that aims to make it easier to shop online by cutting down on the number of accounts consumers have to create with various Web retailers. The service, called PayPal Access, was unveiled at eBay's X.commerce developer conference in San Francisco."