<![CDATA[Would you stay at a hotel if they required you to upload a picture of your driver's license and a photo of yourself as part of the check in?]]>Would you stay at a hotel if they required you to upload a picture of your driver's license and a photo of yourself as part of the check in?

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]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/topic/7c97910f-1f7d-4609-96e9-27363d4dcccd/would-you-stay-at-a-hotel-if-they-required-you-to-upload-a-picture-of-your-driver-s-license-and-a-photo-of-yourself-as-part-of-the-check-inRSS for NodeMon, 09 Nov 2026 12:44:12 GMTThu, 07 May 2026 12:14:33 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Would you stay at a hotel if they required you to upload a picture of your driver's license and a photo of yourself as part of the check in? on Thu, 07 May 2026 18:04:24 GMT]]>@artcollisions @elfkin very!]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://social.gl-como.it/objects/3e3ce0df-7369-fcd4-287c-50c275371638https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://social.gl-como.it/objects/3e3ce0df-7369-fcd4-287c-50c275371638Thu, 07 May 2026 18:04:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Would you stay at a hotel if they required you to upload a picture of your driver's license and a photo of yourself as part of the check in? on Thu, 07 May 2026 18:02:18 GMT]]>@valhalla @elfkin I'm used to showing id/passport/license to a clerk at check in. I have no problem with that. Uploading to the internet to who knows where? That's a problem.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://vis.social/users/artcollisions/statuses/116534603814622718https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://vis.social/users/artcollisions/statuses/116534603814622718Thu, 07 May 2026 18:02:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Would you stay at a hotel if they required you to upload a picture of your driver's license and a photo of yourself as part of the check in? on Thu, 07 May 2026 17:42:20 GMT]]>@elfkin @artcollisions in Italy by law they have to write down your name and document number, check that it's actually you¹ and provide it to the police and that's it. no storing the data, no collecting more than that, etc. etc.

9 times out of 9 they will either take the ID to a back office, possibly asking you to go to your room and then get them back when you want to leave the room / hotel, or take a picture of it to get the data later, or both.

(doing checkin not in person is more complicated, since they are supposed to also see the ID and check that it belongs to you, so they will indeed ask you to upload them. then they are not supposed to store any of it, but I'm sure most of them can't be trusted not to)

¹ yeah.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://social.gl-como.it/objects/3e3ce0df-1969-fcce-fca8-ac7502663560https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://social.gl-como.it/objects/3e3ce0df-1969-fcce-fca8-ac7502663560Thu, 07 May 2026 17:42:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Would you stay at a hotel if they required you to upload a picture of your driver's license and a photo of yourself as part of the check in? on Thu, 07 May 2026 15:27:26 GMT]]>@artcollisions The receptionist at the hotel took our docs into a back office to do whatever. For all I know, they were making custom dart boards out of them.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://woof.group/users/elfkin/statuses/116533994899773967https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://woof.group/users/elfkin/statuses/116533994899773967Thu, 07 May 2026 15:27:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Would you stay at a hotel if they required you to upload a picture of your driver's license and a photo of yourself as part of the check in? on Thu, 07 May 2026 15:21:54 GMT]]>@elfkin yeah but that’s a paper copy, right?

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://vis.social/users/artcollisions/statuses/116533973132848157https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://vis.social/users/artcollisions/statuses/116533973132848157Thu, 07 May 2026 15:21:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Would you stay at a hotel if they required you to upload a picture of your driver's license and a photo of yourself as part of the check in? on Thu, 07 May 2026 15:14:38 GMT]]>@artcollisions I mean… when traveling in foreign lands, and mos def in Japan last month, every hotel made a copy of my passport. But also, just about every government on earth is less menacing than our own these days. So 🤷🏻‍♂️.

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