Wired Hotelier

The Lodging Industry Addresses Identity Theft Urban Legend

I find this article important in the way that it reassures guests and other people on the fact that magnetic-strip hotel room key cards hold personal guest's information is a "urban legend myth". I think it would be terrible if the rumor was true and of course, thousand of people would have been already burglarized. It would also be against hotel properties to actually put guests' personal information in room key cards, and people would never again stay in a hotel. However, it is safer to let know guests that this rumor is only a myth. Personnally, if I knew it was true, I would never go back and stay in a hotel and moreover, I would decide not to work in this field in the future because it's unethical towards private life.