Motel 6 Provided ICE with Guest Data

Motel 6 Provided ICE with Guest Data
Short Title	Motel 6 Provided ICE with Guest Data
Location	USA, Washington State
Date	April 2019
Solove Harm	Interrogation, Identification, Secondary Use, Breach of Confidentiality, Increased Accessibility, Intrusion, Disclosure
Information	Identifying, Ethnicity, Location, Contact
Threat Actors	ICE, Regional
Individuals
Affected	Ethnic Minorities
High Risk Groups	Hispanic Individuals, Latin Individuals
Tangible Harms	Incarceration, Deportation, Loss of Trust

Motel 6 employees in Washington State handed ICE agents information of 80,000 guests without requesting a warrant.

Description

For over two years Motel 6 employees would provide ICE agents with guest data such as names, date of birth, identification data, license plates, and room number without requesting a warrant. The ICE agents would then target Latin/ Hispanic minorities based on last names and hold them for questioning, detainment, and deportation.

A multitude of concerns arises from this practice. Motel 6's Secondary Use of data, Breach of Confidentiality, and Increased Accessibility of their guest data allowed ICE to Interrogate, Identify, and Intrude on the lives of many. Motel 6's disclosure of information without a warrant violated the company's privacy policy. To resolve the lawsuit that was filed against them they agreed to pay $12 million to those affected and have signed a legally binding document to stop volunteering guest information without a warrant present. However, that doesn't repair the damage that has already been done or the families that were torn.