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On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:24:28 -0500, AZ Nomad
wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:14:43 -0700, MI wrote: 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. I never said they record it. I was taking exception to pltrgyst's statement that they don't even ask for it when selling a ticket or issueing a boarding pass. They have always asked for my passport when getting a boarding pass for a foreign country. Even before 9/11. They wanted to make sure you had one that was current so they, the airline, wouldn't have to bring you right back from a country that required a passport. -- ************* DAVE HATUNEN ) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |
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On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:14:43 -0700, MI wrote:
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. US Immigration (and many other countries) often swipe the passport through a reader. That records all the info they need. |
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In message "Cari"
was claimed to have wrote: It's not an invasion of privacy if it saves your life. Something can still be an invasion of privacy if it saves your life. Weighing which is more important is an individual preference. |
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"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!! |
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On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:38:40 -0700, 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? My experience--I stay in motels like Comfort, Quality, Days, Ramada, Holiday, etc. around 80-100 nights a year--is that this practice is far more common in the west (west of a vague line somewhere from the Missouri River to the Rockies) than it is east of there. In the east, it is most common in military base towns, and college/university towns. The prevalence of this requirement is clearly spreading to more and more places. Most motels don't note the details of the ID, just inspect it and return it. Personally, I never use a driver's license as the picture ID. Illinois (and most if not all states) also issues a picture ID card, with ID requirements the same as for a DL, it just doesn't grant the privilege of driving. I always use that card. |
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"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. Wrong. Your passport is scanned into the computer. When Customs scans your passport, your entire history comes up for them. |
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On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:04:24 +0100, "topof"
wrote: 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!! Nonsense. When an American credit card is stolen you, the cardholder , are not responsible for any charges run up by the thief. My wallet got lifted on the Paris Metro ten years ago. The thieves used my credit card to run up about $600 in purchases, but I was not responsible for any of it. -- ************* DAVE HATUNEN ) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |
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"Cari" wrote in message ... "Patrick Hernan" wrote in message ... 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? Fairly standard in Las Vegas as the occupant of the room MUST be 21 or over and the way to identify this in the USA is by drivers licence. Foreign visitors must hand over their passport and have those details entered in the computers. If you refmember back to 9.11, Mohammed Atta and his fellow terrorists briefly stayed in Vegas a few months before the attack, unfortunately the motel's photocopies was 'not working' at the time and no details were recorded. If they had been, things might have been very different. It's not an invasion of privacy if it saves your life. Whilst I for one don't give a damn about the hotel entering my passport number into their computer, I can't see a single possible way in which doing so can lead to my life being saved. (Please stop regurgitating unfounded Government spin!) tim |
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