Q&A: Advice to the next Homeland Security CPO
Your last public act as DHS CPO was to release a report (download PDF) critical of data practices at European hotels. What do you hope this will accomplish? Critical of hotels? No. We issued a report that set forth the facts and the law, as we currently understand them, about data protection in the “third pillar” and in certain EU member states with regard to security service collection and use of hotel guest registration data, a common practice throughout Europe. If we were critical, it was of the officials who were reluctant in being transparent about what their security services do with hotel guest registration data.