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PRIVACY

Does Diana Rojas have the right to privacy in her vacation rental? Apparently not. When she rented a home on Vrbo recently, she was shocked when her host "invaded" her privacy.

Do I have the right to privacy in my vacation rental? Maybe not in this one.

November 24, 2024May 13, 2024 by Christopher Elliott

Do you have the right to privacy in your vacation rental? Meet a guest who thought she did. Until she found a hidden camera.

Categories Advocacy
Julie Duteau noticed something strange on her last two phone bills: a surprise $10 fee for a "modem lease." Problem is, she already owns her modem.

This surprise fee made her phone bill skyrocket

January 19, 2024March 18, 2023 by Christopher Elliott

Julie Duteau noticed something strange on her last two phone bills: a surprise $10 fee for a “modem lease.” Find out how to avoid unwanted surcharges like this on your bill.

Categories Advocacy
When Shira flies home she’ll be concerned about her Samsung Galaxy S7 phone — specifically, the information on it and her digital privacy.

How can you protect your right to digital privacy at the border?

August 10, 2023July 24, 2017 by Christopher Elliott

When Shira Newman flies home from Tel Aviv this summer, she won’t be worried about long lines at the airport or short tempers on the plane. Instead, she’ll be concerned about her Samsung Galaxy S7 phone — specifically, the information on it.

Categories Commentary
Worst of times for travelers.

Your consumer rights are disappearing. Here’s how to protect yourself now.

December 14, 2023June 19, 2017 by Christopher Elliott

Don’t look now, but your consumer rights are vanishing.

Categories Commentary, On Travel
When the TSA’s Pre-Check formally launches, its trusted-traveler program will already have the enthusiastic endorsement of frequent travelers.

TSA’s new Pre-Check programs raises major privacy concerns

January 23, 2024October 6, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

When the Transportation Security Administration’s Pre-Check formally launches sometime this fall, its trusted-traveler program will already have the enthusiastic endorsement of frequent travelers — and an equally enthusiastic denouncement from privacy advocates.

Categories The Navigator
Recent revelations of the National Security Agency’s sweeping domestic surveillance programs may have angered many Americans.

Privacy? There’s no such thing on the road

January 23, 2024June 23, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

Recent revelations of the National Security Agency’s sweeping domestic surveillance programs may have angered many Americans, but for most travelers, it was nothing new.

Categories The Navigator
Several days after Traci Fox visited a small independent resort in the Catskill Mountains, she received an unexpected call from a shoe store.

When you check in, your privacy may check out

January 23, 2024March 31, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

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Categories The Navigator
The rights of mothers to nurse their babies on a plane. Breast-feeding advocates weighed in on the issue in the comments section.

Can breast-feeding activists have it both ways on a plane?

January 22, 2024October 9, 2012 by Christopher Elliott

One of the hot discussions this summer centered around the rights of mothers to nurse their babies on a plane.

Categories Commentary
The TSA is at it again. Earlier this week, it announced that in an effort to "enhance security while strengthening privacy protection.

Do the TSA’s new body scanners solve our screening problems?

January 19, 2024February 3, 2011 by Christopher Elliott

The TSA is at it again. Earlier this week, it announced that in an effort to “enhance security while strengthening privacy protection” it had begun testing new scanning technology that doesn’t show screeners naked images of passengers.

Categories Commentary

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