Motel 6 to pay $12M for sharing guest info with ICE

guest · Apr 6, 2019

Motel 6 to pay $12M for sharing guest info with ICE
April 5, 2019
https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/motel-6-to-pay-12m-for-sharing-guest-info-with-ice/

Motel 6 will pay a $12 million settlement to Washington state after employees at several of the chain’s locations shared information – without a warrant – on 80,000 guests in the state with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over a two-year period.
“Motel 6’s actions tore families apart and violated the privacy rights of tens of thousands of Washingtonians,” Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a release.

Between 2015-2017, Motel 6 employees at seven locations in the state shared guest lists with ICE that included private information on all guests staying at a hotel location, violating, the AG’s office said, their expectation of privacy. ICE used those list to target guests with Latino-sounding names.
The practice wasn’t limited to Motel 6 in Washington but rather happened around the country.

However, as experts have pointed out there is no law that compels hotels to voluntarily give up guest information to law enforcement.
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kls490 · Apr 6, 2019

Yet another splendid example of just how low the Fed will go.

bellgamin · Apr 6, 2019

For some folks, "privacy" equates to "the legal right to secretly do illegal things."

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