Timeline for Is it legitimate for European hotels to ask for passport numbers?
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| May 15, 2016 at 4:53 | answer | added | Burhan Khalid | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 14, 2016 at 9:40 | answer | added | J. Doe | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 9, 2015 at 3:18 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackTravel/status/663556197866434560 | ||
| Nov 6, 2015 at 21:21 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | @mouviciel, the definition of "processed" in the context of data protection includes storage and doesn't care whether a computer is involved or not. | |
| Nov 6, 2015 at 15:42 | comment | added | mouviciel | The whole thing about personal data protection is in the verb "processed" at the end of your quote. In this case, data is only stored, usually in a reservation book, i.e., without involving a computer. | |
| Nov 5, 2015 at 22:08 | comment | added | Relaxed | @sampablokuper The thing is that something can only be deemed adequate or excessive with respect to a specific purpose so you have to determine what the purpose is before even discussing the relevance (that's also implied by the quote you found). As I explained hotels are not entitled nor particularly interested in it, they are collecting it on behalf of the authorities because they have to. Incidentally, data protection laws are mostly about privacy, not identity theft, which only emerged as a concern recently. But I see your point, and I certainly agree that it's intrusive either way. | |
| Nov 5, 2015 at 21:51 | comment | added | user13727 | @Relaxed, I genuinely do not know what the purpose is. I don't see why a hotelier should be any more entitled to know a customer's passport number than a hairdresser or a greengrocer or a restaurateur should; which is to say, not at all. | |
| Nov 5, 2015 at 12:15 | comment | added | Gagravarr | UK specific - If you're "an alien", then a UK hotel or hostel is obliged to record your passport or ID card details under the ancient-but-still-in-force Immigration (Hotel Records) Order 1972. Normally they wouldn't do that until checkin though | |
| Nov 5, 2015 at 10:21 | answer | added | Calchas | timeline score: -1 | |
| Nov 4, 2015 at 21:04 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 4, 2015 at 17:56 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 4, 2015 at 17:26 | comment | added | Relaxed | What do you suppose the purpose is? Usually, hotels do not ask for passport numbers for their own needs but because they are required to do so by law. So getting a passport number is the purpose and ipso facto relevant and proportionate. My experience is that you can certainly book hotels without providing a passport number (e.g. with a credit card), certainly in the UK, but you will be asked to present some form of ID when checking in. Also, as far as I know, identity theft isn't such a serious problems in most EU countries. | |
| Nov 4, 2015 at 17:14 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 4, 2015 at 17:12 | history | asked | user13727 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |