Indeed they’re not.

The lawsuit of concern about which I’m talking would not have the hotel as plaintiff. It would be with the intruded-upon hotel guest as plaintiff while the hotel and/or other hotel guest would be the defendants.

Even in the absence of litigation concerns, people who feel at risk of being intruded upon may have their own privacy concerns with sharing too much information here. There are people — including on FT — who use info posted online to do things that the potential providers of additional info may not want to facilitate or welcome. For good reason FT has long had a policy where badgering members for additional personal info is against the rules and where members should be respected for having their own boundaries about what to share and not share.