The Leather RFID Blocking Wallet can be used to protect digital information embedded in a variety of RFID enabled cards such as:

•All new contact-less credit cards
•US Passport Cards
•Enhanced Driver's Licenses- such as Washington, Michigan, New York, and Vermont (more States are coming too)
•sQuid cards used in Europe 

The Aluminum RFID Blocking Wallet can be used to protect digital information embedded in a variety of RFID enabled cards.

You lock your car, and your house, why not lock your personal data as well? 

Prevents "Electronic Pickpocketing" of RFID Chips Embedded in new Credit Cards and Drivers Licenses

Many of the credit card companies are issuing credit cards which contain Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology that lets you simply wave your credit card, passport or license in front of a nearby scanner instead of having to slide the magnetic stripe through it. 

It’s a fairly simple concept. The electronic scanner sends a signal which is received by an antenna embedded into the card, which is connected to the card's RF chip, thus activating it.

The biggest recent change in credit cards is the embedded Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip, enabling what the industry calls "contactless payments."  Since 2005, many credit card companies such as Chase Bank began introducing their RF Credit Card and coined the term "Blink" technology. These "contactless" cards could be simply waved in front of an RFID Enabled Point of Sale terminal.

The apparent benefits of RFID credit card transactions are convenience, speed and the elimination of employee contact with the card.  To minimize accidental reading of these cards, they are designed to be read at a distance of one to four inches from the reader.  Its because of this technology that can allow an RF enabled card to be "hi-jacked" by use of an unauthorized RFID scanner, and then the information used for fraudulent purposes.  It is important to note that there are two parts to this process:  Scanning the card to retrieve the information, and then being able to use the retrieved information to make a fraudulent financial transaction.

The implication in recent media articles is that it is easy to "hi-jack" the RFID information, and that it is easy to then use this information to make fraudulent purchases.