Hotel Key Card-Urban Myth

I just read this........

Is all your contact information on hotel key cards?? NO! Read below....

"That's just a nasty rumor," says Kathy Shepard, vice president in charge of corporate communications for Hilton Hotels Corporation, which owns and operates the Doubletree Hotel chain. "Our key cards are encrypted with minimal information -- the guest's name, room number and arrival and departure dates -- and encrypted in such a way that they can't be read by ordinary card readers."
According to Shepard, whom I interviewed on October 20, 2003, the rumor stemmed from an actual incident in 1999 in which a southern California police officer claimed that personal information had been easily extracted from a key card procured at a franchisee-owned Doubletree hotel. In later attempts officers were unable to reproduce that result, however, and the original claim has since been retracted, Shepard says.

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