Big Brother is watching...
Column: These cities have their eyes on you
By David Ogul
Jul 05, 2013 • 37 views • 0 comments
The NSA and Google aren’t the only ones snooping on you.
A growing number of North County cities are ordering hotel and motel operators to keep a detailed record of who is staying in their rooms. Encinitas and Solana Beach last week became the latest.
Rules require everyone from the Econo Lodge to Courtyard Marriott to collect and keep for several years not only the (real) names of their guests, but their current address; date and time of arrival; full name of everyone staying in a room; a copy of their driver’s license, passport other official identification; and detailed information about their car.
No, this has nothing to do with divorce attorneys trying to track down whom you’ve been shacking up with.
You could thank the Sheriff’s Department, which rightfully argues that having such information on file can come in handy when investigating crimes.
Hotel owners, though, say guests aren’t too happy about coughing up such details, not too mention their own dismay at having the government toss on yet one more regulation their way.
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I guess I won't be going to California now.
