“I never give it”: Expert explains how to give your ID safely in hotels and accommodations

The protection of our personal information has become a crucial and basic task in this increasingly digital world. This is because these data are the entrance door for many services and if exposed we would be putting at risk that they supply us and end up stealing our money or commit crimes by passing through us.

The maximum format that collects our personal information in Spain, is the National Identity Document (DNI) because It collects some of our most important and necessary data to demonstrate who we really are In the bank, before government institutions or in hotels and accommodations.

And it is that in relation to the latter, last December a new regulation of guest registration in hotels, hostels, pensions and other establishments dedicated to the accommodation of tourists, as well as operators that act as intermediaries, entered into force.

This has set up the hotel sector, but as the expert Bruno Pérez Juncà, Forensic Computer Judicial Expert in the ‘Tot is Mou’ program of TV3, said this change of regulations, this change of regulations We should put us on alert in regards to our privacy.

This cybersecurity expert shared his tricks when making the “check-in” in accommodation, and that is that in any hotel or similar one of the things that They always ask us is the DNI or the passport. And as this information is mandatory to always deliver, but it is also the most sensitive, Pérez advocates Always deliver a copy of said document and not the original.

“I never from life, when I go to a hotel, I give it. I never. Also emphasize that always make it clear that it is a duplicate And as recommended by the Civil Guard, the key is to share a copy of your ID:

1. Send the black and white photo: Thus it will be more evident that it is a copy and it will be more difficult for you to supply you.
2. Pixela, cover or erase all those not necessary data: such as the issuance date or validity and special mention to the signature of your ID or in many cases you can do the same with the photo.
3. Add the reason you share it: This phrase does not affect the validity of the copy and serves to prevent the copy from being used for other procedures by third parties.

Although you also have the option to use a specific app for this, a Spanish platform called Saferlayer, which has been presented as the final solution to share the ID in a safe and simple way.