Funnily enough...
http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/blackpoolnews/Man-thrown-out-of-hotel.
6535710.jp
Peter Dinsdale
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Serewicz
Sent: 24 September 2010 13:16
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] Guest Scan
Ibrahim,
Thanks for this. I saw this featured in a journal a couple of weeks ago.
It appears to operate like a potentially violent person's scheme within
Councils. In this case, it is abuse against the guest room rather than
council staff. However, if the proper checks and appeal process is in
place, this would appear to comply with the DPA.
I suppose benefit is that the list is known as opposed to something
underground. The downside may be that an underground list develops in
response to the overt list.
Interestingly enough, hotel firms are also tracking back on registered
reviewers. That is if you review a hotel and rate it poorly, or very
well, the hotel firm will want to contact you. They also track those
users. I cannot find the reference for this service, but it appears to
be in the USA only at the moment.
I wonder when we will see the service that will sell clean identities or
legends. Someone with a dodgy reputation may start to register under an
assumed name or use someone else's clean record to cover their own.
Although this is illegal in the paper age, I can see this developing in
the electronic age. In much the same way that defamatory, libellous,
and scurrilous statements are published quite regularly in the
electronic age, but would have been deterred or stopped immediately in
the paper age. I refer to the policies that some web hosting services
have in which they will not remove material, that is allegedly
defamatory, until directed by a court order.
I find it interesting as well that as we appear to be ready to reduce
state run databases we (as a society) appear ready to accept private or
commercial databases such as guest scan.
Best,
Lawrence
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ibrahim Hasan
Sent: 24 September 2010 12:22
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Subject: [data-protection] Guest Scan
Another database for people to be blacklisted on.
This was featured on You and Yours on Radio 4
http://www.guestscan.co.uk/
Ibrahim Hasan
www.actnow.org.uk
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