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Booking.com says typos giving strangers access to private trip info is not a bug. Popular trip site confirmed it can't stop typos after user flagged privacy issue.
Popular trip site confirmed it can’t stop typos after user flagged privacy issue.
A stunned user recently discovered that a typo in an email address could inadvertently share private trip info with strangers, who can then access sensitive information and potentially even take over bookings that Booking.com automatically adds to their accounts. But Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, a senior staff technologist for the digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Ars that after talking to other developers, his "gut reaction" is that Booking.com didn't have a ton of options to prevent typos during bookings. Alfie told Ars that he has no plans to stop using Booking.com over the weird experience but agreed that users need to be able to cut strangers off when they're accidentally sent private trip info that Hoffman-Andrews said is "definitely pretty sensitive."
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