Comments on: Airbnb Wants to Collect All Your Private Information

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 02:54:27 +0000

They hounded me too, for my photo ID, both front and back. Then my selfie. But I disabled my laptop camera and I refuse to download the app. So, instead if fiddling with my camera settings, I canceled my account. I’ll stick to craigslist.

By: Jerome

Jerome — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 08:24:19 +0000

That’s good you didn’t give them the info. I read about their terms of use of the information you give them. They basically said they give the information over to the IRS, to help them keep up with you and your tax information, which is totally unrelated to AirBnb. They also give it to law enforcement agencies, and a few other places I don’t remember.

Then there was that scandal with the AirBnb hosts taking pictures of their guests’ personal information, and sharing it in facebook groups to talk crap about them.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 23:28:38 +0000

I am quite surprised that hosts solicit feedback about me. Why am I supposed to be graded by hosts? I have no contractual relationship with them.

By: Al

Al — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 02:44:23 +0000

I’m both a host and guest on Airbnb (had good and bad experiences) but from the host perspective I only take guests who have their ID verified, a clear face picture, zero negative reviews and a full profile. I wont see the personal my details, I don’t care about that but I want to feel safe welcoming a stranger in my house. And from the guest perspective I wouldn’t be offended by that. When you go to a hotel they also take your passport details and sometimes even copy it.

But if you don’t feel comfortable giving your photo and passeport details to a website or app then yes it’s better for you not using Airbnb.

Actually reading your story I would have been super pissed with the cancelation not the ID thing

By: Papillon

Papillon — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 20:39:35 +0000

If this is the way Airbnb is heading with ID requirements for people who have been long-time guests on the site then Airbnb can go fuck off. Besides, ID should be applicable also to hosts. There are too many dodgy-looking properties on Airbnb. Only the other day a host suggested I pay for his apartment through his own website to save me Airbnb fees. Yeah, delete.

By: hedgehog14

hedgehog14 — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 12:55:11 +0000

I can’t believe they want drivers license and passport images uploaded. I had used airbnb three times (with good and bad experiences) and aganst my better judgement, I was looking on airbnb and found a place as I was travelling with a dog and it’s really hard to find places sometimes, I went into my account to message the host to ask about bringing my dog and before I could airbnb’s account system wanted me upload my passport which I refused and wanted access to my facebook account which I woulnd’t do… so then I deleted my account. They already have so much information on me from the previous bookings….why in the world would they need even more? the more I read on here the more relieved I feel for having deleted my account but I still don’t trust that my info is not still in their system or having been sold to a 3rd party