Travel privacy is important – airlines, hotels and travel programs are hackedable

Travel privacy affects every passenger.

When I talk about travel privacy, most passengers see me empty. Do I get “What-Me-Dorri”? Stare. But travel records tell a lot about passengers, and privacy rules and regulations are some more far away.

Airlines, hotels, rented cars, tour operators, cruise lines, and other aspects of the travel industry all work through the huge information technology (IT) network. Each general distribution system (GDS) has its own network, which is plugged into a large network. They allow travelers to get information about their journey from every corner of the world. It is an IT world that requires travel privacy protection.

Privacy rules need to be integrated under a federal office.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Transport (DOT) divided the government’s secrecy rules and regulations. FTC determines the privacy rules for most economy and travel providers, such as hotels, cruise lines and rental cars. The dot makes and enforces the privacy rules for airlines and ticket agents. The giant GDS spreads the world and connects all travel agents to airlines and hotels.

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Nine years ago, Travelers United called for the first privacy discussion among the travel stakeholders. Consumers, FTCs, DOTs, Airlines, travel agents and computer operators met for a full day before the Advisory Committee for Aviation Consumer Safety. The work was going on, in which meetings with airlines and other privacy groups were to be determined. However, President Trump stopped all the progress made by the Advisory Committee, and nothing has happened during the Biden administration so far.

The Senate Commerce Committee mentioned the journey secrecy concerns.

In addition, in 2019, the Senate Commerce Committee sent a letter to the airlines in which the concerns of secrecy were noted.

An additional transparency concerns how the airlines handle individual information received from consumers through ticket purchasing process. The data collected during ticket purchase may include a passenger’s name, credit card number, date, address, address, and travel partner, with other information. No comprehensive federal privacy law currently applies to collect, use and disclose consumer travel information. Consumer advocates have expressed concern that the airline can have adequate warning in privacy policies and it is difficult for consumers to learn what airlines and others in the travel field gather, keep, and share.

Travel data is important, but no one cares.

Travel confidentiality includes reservation on the form of payment, passport information, all types of transport, housing, preferences, backup information, and more.

Today, the airline industry is proposing new technology standards through the International Air Transport Association (IATA). These will allow other travel providers to create “personal prices” for passengers, and eventually, other travel providers.

Airlines and hotels accessible to private information can provide personal advertisements.

An airline or a hotel can look at travel data and combine it with the third-party information available. Travel provider your home value, your annual income, credit report, where you go to school, check what kind of car you drive, etc., then, they combine it with data they place in their IT system. Using this data, travel providers can provide the right price to individuals.

Voila! An airline can offer very individual services to passengers, which they need they need. We passengers will also not need to think. Airlines will think of us for us. Heck, if it moves forward and the database becomes enough powerful, the entire travel plan system can be automated. Our holidays can be planned from beginning to end what we want based on showing personal data.

Customers should be in charge. Allow them to customize their journey.

Customers should keep the customer or customized pricing as in charge of customizing their own travel palette. We choose what we want for ourselves. Of course, this will require airlines and other travel providers to provide us an usable menu of services. This will include prices and supportive fees. Airlines still refuses to provide these total prices in a form where they can be compared to the entire industry.

• Both individual and financially matters from the point of view of privacy security.
• Airlines and other travel providers that keep about matters of passengers, as they want to pricing and personalize market products.

Consumers require a travel privacy system. All travel providers should tell consumers what the industry knows about them. This will allow consumers to ensure that the information is accurate, even if they use them, there is no control over.

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