Journalist Dan Gillmor recently stayed at the New Yorker hotel in midtown and was forced to hand over his driver's license and credit card to be photocopied by the hotel. Gillmor worries about identity theft and comments, "I wonder if the NYC police are behind this. Are they systematically collecting pictures and addresses of everyone staying in mid-town New York City? If so, it's a sleazy way to go about it."
A hotel's privacy invasion [SiliconValley.com]