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> contact details, loyalty account information and additional personal details such as gender and birthdays I'm always wondering why a random service would need a date of birth (apart from validating "the person is an adult"). Some of them give you a special promo for your birthday, but I guess I can live without that. Except banking & government services, I typically provide a fake one if required, because, WTF?
> contact details, loyalty account information and additional personal details such as gender and birthdays I'm always wondering why a random service would need a date of birth (apart from validating "the person is an adult"). Some of them give you a special promo for your birthday, but I guess I can live without that. Except banking & government services, I typically provide a fake one if required, because, WTF?
Gather as much as you can is their idea. It costs you nothing, but it may be valuable one day.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every Marriott I have ever been in was chosen for me, because of their business-friendly group booking system. There's an agent-principle problem with hotels that rely on corporate group rate and conference customers. I went to the fedex store in a Marriott a couple of blocks from here to drop off a pre-paid parcel, and they wanted a $20 "convenience" fee to leave it on the desk. Maybe Marriott doesn't need to care a…
Wow, never heard of paying to drop off a package. Is that common? I thought the shipping fees or postage if gov post office is what’s suppose to pay for that.
That headline, geez... remove the last four words and I guess it could be much, much worse :o
> contact details, loyalty account information and additional personal details such as gender and birthdays I'm always wondering why a random service would need a date of birth (apart from validating "the person is an adult"). Some of them give you a special promo for your birthday, but I guess I can live without that. Except banking & government services, I typically provide a fake one if required, because, WTF?
I often edit my birthday to coincide with my stays.
Luckily, Mariott doesn't have anything else to worry about right now.
> contact details, loyalty account information and additional personal details such as gender and birthdays I'm always wondering why a random service would need a date of birth (apart from validating "the person is an adult"). Some of them give you a special promo for your birthday, but I guess I can live without that. Except banking & government services, I typically provide a fake one if required, because, WTF?
> contact details, loyalty account information and additional personal details such as gender and birthdays I'm always wondering why a random service would need a date of birth (apart from validating "the person is an adult"). Some of them give you a special promo for your birthday, but I guess I can live without that. Except banking & government services, I typically provide a fake one if required, because, WTF?
I've never given my birthday or gender to a hotel, so my best guess is that they just have this info for some people but not most (rewards programs, perhaps?). It's possible they write it down when I give them my ID, but it seems like a lot of work for very little payoff.
All you need to prove is your age, but the company that puts the scanner in place (in the case of bars and restaurants) collects all the info on the DL. Walgreens collects all the info and correlates it with your CC if you don’t pay by cash. Etc.
Any major hotel will simply swipe your DL and will populate the guest record with its info.
What protections/power do consumers have when their personal information is exposed like this?
The last breach was November of of 2018 . They have had a year and a half to fix their abysmal security practices. Instead they choose to focus their efforts in that time on a ridiculous branding juggernaut("Bonvoy".) Seriously fuck this company. I hope people vote with their wallet.
Every Marriott I have ever been in was chosen for me, because of their business-friendly group booking system. There's an agent-principle problem with hotels that rely on corporate group rate and conference customers. I went to the fedex store in a Marriott a couple of blocks from here to drop off a pre-paid parcel, and they wanted a $20 "convenience" fee to leave it on the desk. Maybe Marriott doesn't need to care a…