Yesterday, while reading the Inquirer, a story caught my eye in the travel section -- hotels want to know you, mister angry@hostelry. Getting to know your customers is a good thing, that was the main reason why I started reading the article. However, I quickly got to the point in the narrative where I had the realization that hotels now use locations, dates, and user names that appear online to triangulate a guest's identity, and may use that information against them. Because here's what happens next. Once they find a likely match, the review is added to a hotel's guest-preference... Read more →