Originally Posted by
travelinmanS
What would you worry about? The info is simply submitted to the local police as required by law.
To the police initially and then as guwonder suggests potentially other places from there
Originally Posted by
GUWonder
Passport data of hotel guests has been lifted and misused by non-state criminal actors and even by some state actors. Such collection of guest passport info facilitates: the creation of fraudulent documents; the forging of documents; and the fraudulent or otherwise illegitimate use of real documents or of data thereon.
It's up to each of us not to provide anything more than absolutely necessary as there are way too many abuses possible and probable.