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On 10/3/08 2:04 AM, in article , "topof" wrote: "Marsha" wrote in message ... Patrick Hernan wrote: I stayed at a major hotel in Las Vegas recently. At check-in they wanted a credit card and picture ID. I gave them a credit card and my driver's license as an ID. Before I knew it she entered my driver's license number into the hotel computer. This has never happened to me before. When I objected she said "everybody does it now" but that is certainly not my experience. This really seems like an invasion of privacy in the time of identity theft. I can only imagine how many employees have access to that computer. Even when I travel abroad hotel clerks usually don't take down my passport number. As an American traveling in America this seems outrageous. Has anyone else had a similar experience? I've stayed in probably 12 different hotels in the last year, some as recently as two weeks ago, and not a single one of them asked for picture ID. I would have refused to give it to them anyway. If they insisted, I would have held onto it while they looked at it, but never would have given it to them. Marsha/Ohio And if your credit card was stolen and used youd be the first one to complain that no one asked for ID when the purchases were made!! If you had reported it to the card holder, it wouldn't cause you any trouble. It would be a problem for the the seller though. -- Martha Canada |
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On 10/3/08 2:07 AM, in article , "topof" wrote: "MI" wrote in message ... On 10/2/08 9:06 PM, in article , "AZ Nomad" wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:50:58 -0400, pltrgyst wrote: I've never had an airline copy information from my driver's license, or ask for it when selling me a ticket or issuing a boarding pass. And that includes United and Southwest among them. Checking ID before issueing a boarding pass is universal. That includes all the airlines. That is true, but they just look at it. They don't record it nor should they. A passport is used to identify someone. Not even immigration officers record it when you enter a country. They look at it and stamp it. Period. -- Martha Canada I think you'll find they DO record your passport details when you enter another country! its swiped through their machine and records your entry! Bieng a regular traveller around the world from the UK, the last time i went to the US immigration told me exactly how many times id been to the USA in the lastt 12 months when i was routinely questioned! Never happened to me. It's only been swiped once in the last 4 years. Even when I entered the States from Australia, they just looked at it and stamped it. As I only live 40 km. from the US border, I cross it often. -- Martha Canada |
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Patrick*Hernan asked:
As an American traveling in America this seems outrageous. Has anyone else had a similar experience? A hotel in Miami Beach once required that I fax them a copy of my driver's license, when I telephoned to make a reservation. I stayed elsewhere. |
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Nile wrote on Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:42:42 -0500:
As an American traveling in America this seems outrageous. Has anyone else had a similar experience? A hotel in Miami Beach once required that I fax them a copy of my driver's license, when I telephoned to make a reservation. I stayed elsewhere. Seems a bit unusual but many places will want to you to give a credit card number to guarantee the reservation. -- James Silverton Potomac, Maryland Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not |
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"James Silverton" wrote in message ... Seems a bit unusual but many places will want to you to give a credit card number to guarantee the reservation. That's standard at any major hotel in the US. |
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AZ Nomad wrote:
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:50:58 -0400, pltrgyst wrote: I've never had an airline copy information from my driver's license, or ask for it when selling me a ticket or issuing a boarding pass. And that includes United and Southwest among them. Checking ID before issueing a boarding pass is universal. That includes all the airlines. No ID is required before issueing a boarding pass. I always print it at home within 24 hours of my flight. Now if you're talking about getting through security without ID and a boarding pass, that's another thing. Marsha/Ohio |
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On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:32:22 -0400, Marsha wrote:
AZ Nomad wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:50:58 -0400, pltrgyst wrote: I've never had an airline copy information from my driver's license, or ask for it when selling me a ticket or issuing a boarding pass. And that includes United and Southwest among them. Checking ID before issueing a boarding pass is universal. That includes all the airlines. No ID is required before issueing a boarding pass. I always print it at home within 24 hours of my flight. Now if you're talking about getting through security without ID and a boarding pass, that's another thing. You don't think identification is checked over the web? Anybody can just waltz onto the airline's site, say they're you and print a boarding pass so they can take your place on the flight? |
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On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:07:17 +0100, "topof" wrote:
"MI" wrote in message ... On 10/2/08 9:06 PM, in article , "AZ Nomad" wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:50:58 -0400, pltrgyst wrote: I've never had an airline copy information from my driver's license, or ask for it when selling me a ticket or issuing a boarding pass. And that includes United and Southwest among them. Checking ID before issueing a boarding pass is universal. That includes all the airlines. That is true, but they just look at it. They don't record it nor should they. A passport is used to identify someone. Not even immigration officers record it when you enter a country. They look at it and stamp it. Period. -- Martha Canada I think you'll find they DO record your passport details when you enter another country! its swiped through their machine and records your entry! Bieng a regular traveller around the world from the UK, the last time i went to the US immigration told me exactly how many times id been to the USA in the lastt 12 months when i was routinely questioned! They know how many times you have entered, but not necessarily how long you've stayed. Especially if you leave by a land border (where the immigration check - if any - is on the other side). |
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On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:40:34 -0500, "Jim Davis"
wrote: "pltrgyst" wrote in message .. . On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:06:23 -0500, AZ Nomad wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:50:58 -0400, pltrgyst wrote: I've never had an airline copy information from my driver's license, or ask for it when selling me a ticket or issuing a boarding pass. And that includes United and Southwest among them. Checking ID before issueing a boarding pass is universal. That includes all the airlines. Which has nothing at all to do with what I said. My statement stands. I print my boarding passes at home via the Internet. When asked for ID, I show my passport or passport ID, even for domestic travel. The airlines don't scan or record any information from the ID proferred. -- Larry When I check in for an international flight online with CO, my passport information is already there. I just click on it, and I'm finished. I used to use my CC at the kiosk, until certain information came up one day. What kind of information? |
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