> This said, these days it could be done electronically

Are you 'avin a laugh mate?

A photocopy of my passport is going nowhere and is shreadded afterwards. An electronic copy..... God lord.

The GDPR also requires data deletion once you no longer need it; physical as well as electronic. This is common sense, and why some organisations don't do this is simply mind boglling.

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toyg 9 hours ago | parent [-]

The whole point is that the hotel would not even get a copy, the machine would just send hashes around and the hotel would only get an anonymous transaction ID to store. It would probably be even more secure than what you have today at the airport.

If you think photocopies kept in some folder accessible to anyone working in the hotel, with a promise to delete it at some point, is "secure" in any way, I don't know what to tell you.

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preg_match an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I’m sure this can be done, but somehow I doubt it.

When I toured apartments they would often take a photocopy of my ID. Okay, overkill. But realistically I have no idea where that photocopy is stored.

Probably in a OneDrive somewhere to this day.

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GJim 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Good lord!

Rather a paper data breach exposed to a few hotel employees than eletronic data exposed to the entire planet!

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tlb 7 hours ago | parent [-]

When paper data is breached, the crooks don't steal the paper and put in their own locked file cabinet. They take pictures of the documents and sell the data on the dark web. So the end result is the same.

	▲	mainecoder 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		the will need to take a picture everytime they are lazy but stealing all the people who ever stayed at that hotel is a simple copy past taking less than 10 minutes