This is a bit BS, isn’t it? I cannot remember any time I stayed in any hotel in Spain, where they didn’t ask me for my ID (which they promptly photocopied), and a payment card (which they kept on file). So they already had the data, and from what it seems, they were illegally storing it, i.e. they weren’t following GDPR.
The difference is that all that data should now be uploaded to a government website.
Thus the problem here is that, since they won’t invest in protecting travellers’ data, they are now shifting the blame to the government.
This is a bit BS, isn’t it? I cannot remember any time I stayed in any hotel in Spain, where they didn’t ask me for my ID (which they promptly photocopied), and a payment card (which they kept on file). So they already had the data, and from what it seems, they were illegally storing it, i.e. they weren’t following GDPR.
The difference is that all that data should now be uploaded to a government website.
Thus the problem here is that, since they won’t invest in protecting travellers’ data, they are now shifting the blame to the government.