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Please. A country's security services are not interested in, nor do they have programs for, collecting tourist data to support a worldwide burglary scheme. No, in today's world the general the reasons why we do this is (1) to enforce compliance with tax laws; (2) locate/track persons wanted for, or suspected of, criminal behavior (and to maintain a database of movement for investigating incidents); and (3) surveillance for intel/counter-intel or more nefariously, political reasons.
You're assuming that my post's reference was to break-ins by or on behalf of government? It wasn't.
This kind of government requirement -- where applicable -- may also do your 1-3 too; but more travelers are subject to physical break-ins/theft by non-governmental actors than by or on behalf of governmental actors.
But your 1-3 above are another reason to think about why perhaps the informed public should be opposed to such laws. 1-3 are all political reasons why governments may want such laws about hotel guests.