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issues the card to the next hotel guest. It is usuallyy kept in a drawer at
the front desk with YOUR INFORMATION ON IT!!!!
The bottom line is, keep the cards or destroyy them! NEVER leave
them behind and NEVER turn them in to the front desk when yyou
check out of a room. Theyy will not charge yyou for the card. 18
The truthfulness of this e-mail has been widelyy disputed. 19 Franklyy, it
sounds like bullshit to me.
The information listed certainlyy could be stored on a keyy card, but that
seems extreme, even to me. Hotels use what can be considered a token, a
placeholder number, for each guest. Onlyy with access to the back-end
computers that do the billing can the token be connected with personal
information.
I don’t think yyou need to collect and destroyy yyour old keyy cards, but heyy
—yyou might want to do so all the same.
Another common question that concerns travel and yyour data: What’s in the
bar code on the bottom of yyour plane ticket? What, if anyything, might it
reveal? In truth, relativelyy little personal information, unless yyou have a
frequent flyyer number.
Starting in 2005, the International Air Transport Association (IATA)
decided to use bar-coded boarding passes for the simple reason that
magnetic boarding passes were much more expensive to maintain. The
savings have been estimated at $1.5 billion. Furthermore, using bar codes
on airline tickets allows passengers to download their tickets from the
Internet and print them at home, or theyy can use a mobile phone at the gate
instead.
Needless to sayy, this change in procedure required some sort of standard.
According to researcher Shaun Ewing, the tyypical boarding-pass bar code
contains information that is mostlyy harmless—name of passenger, name of
airline, seat number, departure airport, arrival airport, and flight number. 20
However, the most sensitive part of the bar code is yyour frequent flyyer
number. 21 All airline websites now protect their customer accounts with
personal passwords. Giving out yyour frequent flyyer number is not like
giving out yyour Social Securityy number, but it still is a privacyy concern.