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Accommodation - personal data now required

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It seems that after several pushbacks the new requirements come into force on December 2nd.
Accomodation providers will be required to collect a raft of personal data from all guests. This will include financial information such as credit card and bank details, full contact details and relationship between travellers.
The same applies to car hire companies.
The data is to be sent daily to authorities to help combat crime and terrorism.
Expect delays at check in.
 
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Which? What? Where?

An offficial link might be welcome.
 
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Credit card AND bank details?!?! OK... I'm somewhat might be agreeable to give the 1st (although suppose I don't have one and paying cash for everything) but definitely NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS regarding the 2nd
Bank details,!?@?
 
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CWBuff said:
Credit card AND bank details?!?! OK... I'm somewhat might be agreeable to give the 1st (although suppose I don't have one and paying cash for everything) but definitely NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS regarding the 2nd
Bank details,!?@?
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I'm assuming they need to keep the CC details if you pay with CC and the bank details if you pay with a bank transfer; if you pay by cash, those do not apply.
 
CWBuff said:
Credit card AND bank details?!?! OK... I'm somewhat might be agreeable to give the 1st (although suppose I don't have one and paying cash for everything) but definitely NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS regarding the 2nd
Bank details,!?@?
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that is not what is required. It's the "method" of payment ie: cash; credit card; bank card; bank transfer.

One simple avoidance is to pay cash. Or just take comfort that "they": the Bankers, and Elon, Steve, Sundar, Larry and all the rest already know who you are; where you've been; your shopping habits; favourite Coffee Chain and probably your shoe size and inside-leg.
 
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JCLima said:
I'm assuming they need to keep the CC details if you pay with CC and the bank details if you pay with a bank transfer; if you pay by cash, those do not apply.
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You are correct. It is set out in ‘Anexo 1’as @Tincatinker says (in Spanish) as ‘the means of payment’ for the specific transaction.

I habitually pay for much of my social life in cash as it is not auditable. I have no concerns about the various official bodies, it’s Mrs HtD’s propensity to audit which keeps me awake at night.

There is a distinction in the decree between commercial and non-commercial organisations which may be relevant to donativos, but someone more thorough that I will have to opine on that.
 
MikeyC said:
Accomodation providers will be required to collect a raft of personal data from all guests. This will include financial information such as credit card and bank details, full contact details and relationship between travellers.
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A raft of personal data?
Reading the appendix in the decree it seems to me the hotel/albergue will want a copy of my passport (which they already ask for) plus my address, phone number and email.
They will only ask about the relationship if I am travelling with a minor.
If that’s the case it doesn’t seem like a big deal to me.
 
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You do not have to be truthful…..
 
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There is a distinction in the decree between commercial and non-commercial organisations which may be relevant to donativos
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Yes, it would be interesting to hear from those who are directly concerned by this, i.e. those who manage and provide staff for non-commercial albergues such as donativo albergues, municipal albergues and parochial albergues.

There is an analysis by a European Travel Agents and Tour Operators Association (the analysis deals exclusively with data protection aspects and not with the additional administrative burden) which states that the new law, not yet applicable, concerns lodging activities open to the public and regulated by the corresponding sectorial laws - it is anyone's guess what these corresponding sectorial laws are. But whatever is exempt from these sectorial laws is also exempt from this new traveller registration law. For those who are exempt, the current traveller registration law will continue to apply as it is not suspended. Apologies for stating this, everybody will have read it themselves of course in the BOE.

At the end of the analysis, there is a list of possible actions. I don't know the date of this paper. As to their "Other actions": At least one question had been submitted in March 2023 (by C. Puigdemont and others btw) and there is a written answer; it does not say much. Another written question was submitted last month by two Spanish MEPs from the PPE and, as usual, there will not be an answer any time soon.

Like most of this stuff, this analysis paper is just yet another press release:
 
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You do not have to be truthful…..
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This has already been suggested and described in amusing detail in the older threads about this topic. What is overlooked in this suggestion: In the overwhelming majority of cases the personal data will be read electronically from an ID card - which is what every Spanish pilgrim has as well as the majority of other European pilgrims. ID cards often contain at least the name of the town where the pilgrim's residency is registered and, depending on the issuing country, also the complete address.
 
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Soooooo, still slightly less data than is required by most standard hotels?
I know that our names and passport details are kept as a means of locating last known position if someone should go missing. I'm not sure how effective it is as a method, but I see a certain level of sense to it if family and friends are able to tell the Guardia the last village they know their person to have been staying. I know that customs officials have been *for decades* asking children travelling "Who is this adult?" and "Why are you travelling to X'? (When I was 3 I told US customs that I was heading to Vegas with my dad to shoot some crap and hit the Blackjack tables; we were actually heading to visit family, but I'd likely overheard Dear Old Dad on the phone talking about the trip... That was in about 1970...
When my son used to fly to meet me overseas while I was on sabbatical, we would be checked and double-checked at customs... I don't think verifying -- to the best of their capacity -- the relationship of minors to the adults with whom they are travelling is a bad thing. We live in an ugly world and it's shocking that *any* children fall into the wrong company. On a global scale, sure it's a minuscule percentage... but ti should be zero. So customs and hostelry businesses do what they can... and the law does not get written to say "We check everyone except nice pilgrims who would never kidnap or traffic a child". Laws are blankets and they cover all situations of a given category )travel, temporary commercial lodging)...
 
Evil needs to be confronted and dealt with, pure and simple. Convenience or personal preferences are not relevant. The focus is on the victims, doing what can be done to minimize those who suffer. Not a bad concept to support. Chuck
 

Thanks again @Kathor1 to put also this subject in the correct perspective .
 
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Ideal sleeping bag liner whether we want to add a thermal plus to our bag, or if we want to use it alone to sleep in shelters or hostels. Thanks to its mummy shape, it adapts perfectly to our body.

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