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by akshatpradhan 2723 days ago
How does GDPR play into the requirement to store passport numbers?
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Xylakant 2723 days ago
If there’s a legal requirement to store passport numbers you can store them. It’s one of the cases where you don’t need consent. You still have to store them in a safe fashion and the customer still retains most of the rights under GDPR (information about what you store and for which purpose, etc.)
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ryanlol 2723 days ago
It plays. The way these hotels are doing this maybe probably isn't GDPR compliant, but the same applies to vast amounts of other things.

Hard to share any very useful insights on this, it's just the state of most things.

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akshatpradhan 2723 days ago
Can GDPR be used as an audit mechanism for breached passport numbers? And if so, what would that process look like? Can hotels be fined if they’re found to not be GDPR compliant?
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ryanlol 2723 days ago
>Can GDPR be used as an audit mechanism for breached passport numbers? And if so, what would that process look like?

I'm not quite sure what you mean, but the answer is probably no.

>Can hotels be fined if they’re found to not be GDPR compliant?

Sure, but is anyone GDPR compliant yet? I'd imagine that all the DPAs in EU are extremely busy right now.

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