Are you sick of having your driver's license scanned by retailers? Are you concerned that your data might be sold to advertisers or stolen by hackers in the same way that millions of customer records have been stolen from Citibank, Sony, Sega, T-Mobile, Honda, Symantec, Countrywide, Bank of America, Kroger, Capital One, JP Morgon, Marriot, and a few others? Well, here's

Step 1: Take your driver's license out of your wallet or purse.

Step 2: Turn it over and locate the bar codes on the back of it.

Step 3: Slap some electrical tape over those bad boys.

Now, when the clerk tries to scan your name, address, age, eye color, weight, birthdate, and gender from the 2D barcode on the back of your license into their system for later theft or sale, they will fail and you won't feel compelled to never shop there again. Or, at least they will fail.