Embarkation Security Photo, What Happens After The Cruise?

[need2cruisesoon]

You first board and the security personnel take you photo for future on/off ship.

 

Just curious if the cruise lines save this info or discard it. Just think they know where you live, date of birth and what you look like.

 

I mean if you take a train or a plane or a bus they don't take your picture.

 

Seems like the cruise company knows more about you than the IRS? Does that bother you?

[donaldsc]

Nope.

 

DON

[CruiserBruce]

Never thought about it. Doesn't worry me.

[mom says]

Doesn't bother me at all. Can't imagine they keep them. If they did, why would they make you get a new one every time you sail (B2B excepted)?

[lifes-a-beach]

Who cares. Given the number of video cameras everywhere you go, the license plate cameras on toll roads and in road construction barrels, I’m pretty sure big brother knows everything about me. Just smile and don’t be a criminal.

[CruiserBruce]

Who cares. Given the number of video cameras everywhere you go, the license plate cameras on toll roads and in road construction barrels, I’m pretty sure big brother knows everything about me. Just smile and don’t be a criminal.

 

Plus the number of selfies one posts, and similar.

[smithop]

The IRS knows a lot more.

 

 

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[dobiemom]

Doesn't bother me at all. Can't imagine they keep them. If they did, why would they make you get a new one every time you sail (B2B excepted)?

I've checked to a HAL cruise and did NOT need my picture taken again since they had one on file.

No, this does not bother me.

[sparks1093]

Another nope, doesn't bother me at all.

[paul929207]

No problem for me.

[evandbob]

My photo, no. My credit card info, yes.

[Bonnie J.]

Your picture is taken and comes up on their computer each time you buy something or come back on the ship. That way they know it is your card, not someone else's, not a stolen one.

 

A tablemate picked up her boyfriend's card as she was getting off the ship. There were all sorts of problems for her when getting back on the ship. His picture came up, not hers. He was sleeping when she left. It took a while for security to come to escort her back to her cabin to get her card. They both then made sure they each had their own cards!

 

Good reasons for you to have your picture come up with your sign'n sail card after this!

[Krazy Kruizers]

HAL does save your picture -- helps speed up check in at the pier.

Doesn't bother us that they do.

[snowskier]

Government does have the picture on file if you have something like a drivers license, passport, military ID, state or federal ID - could go on and on. Not sure how one can say the cruise ship knows more about me than the IRS — last I knew the IRS was part of the government.

 

This is an easy one to fix - if the priority is making sure the cruise line doesn’t have your picture — don’t cruise. If the priority is cruising then you let them have your picture.

[EatonDoolittle]

 

Just curious if the cruise lines save this info or discard it. ?

 

I can confirm that RC does save them. The check in woman in Tampa last year took my pic, then said, wow, it is much better than your last one.

 

The last one was a result on a quickie on-board photo taken during turnaround / new key process on a B2B in Ft Lauderdale- dark and blurred.

 

I agree with other posters, who cares? If you want to worry about it, there are far more privacy concerns out there than this one.

[Velvetwater]

I find this post rather interesting as new EU regulations came in in May about data protection (GDPR).

 

Based on what I have learnt for the above recently due to my job my guess would be a file wipe and a good old shredding of any paper photos. Then again, maybe not everywhere is as strict as here.

[donaldsc]

Bottom line is that if you have any expectation of privacy in today's world, you are fooling yourself. You might not like it but that is a fact of life.

 

DON

[navybankerteacher]

If you cruise anywhere, your picture is out there: the DMV which issued your driver’s license, or the State Department which issued your passport; and, if you use Facebook, millions of others. Not to mention the security cameras you go past every day.

 

Why sweat one more?

[sloopsailor]

You first board and the security personnel take you photo for future on/off ship.

 

Just curious if the cruise lines save this info or discard it. Just think they know where you live, date of birth and what you look like.

 

I mean if you take a train or a plane or a bus they don't take your picture.

 

Seems like the cruise company knows more about you than the IRS? Does that bother you?

 

Doesn't bother me in the least. When you book, you give them your name, date of birth, social security number, passport number, home address, email address, charge card number, telephone number. They have all that information before you even board, so why worry about a bad photo?

 

And regards to no picture being taken on planes and buses, that is completely different. You are only boarding those others once. You don't get off and get back on dozens of times. And, you don't buy items on them like you do with the cashless environment of a cruise ship.

 

That you are living on the ship for days at a time, there is no comparison between cruise ships and planes/buses.

Edited July 30, 2018 by sloopsailor

[Kartgv]

...Seems like the cruise company knows more about you than the IRS? ...

 

I don't think so...the cruise line doesn't know the sources of my income, my dependents, my charitable contributions, medical expenses, property taxes, etc. As others have said, there's not much about any of us that is private any more. Unless you're willing to live off the grid, that's just the way it is.

[AmazedByCruising]

You first board and the security personnel take you photo for future on/off ship.

 

Just curious if the cruise lines save this info or discard it. Just think they know where you live, date of birth and what you look like.

 

I mean if you take a train or a plane or a bus they don't take your picture.

 

Seems like the cruise company knows more about you than the IRS? Does that bother you?

 

A bit. It's less than the IRS knows, but I feel that when they don't need your picture anymore, as they presumably took it for security during your cruise, it should be destroyed without asking.

 

When the lines would operate from the EU, the GDPR which came into effect recently would say so.

[SantaFeFan]

You first board and the security personnel take you photo for future on/off ship.

 

Just curious if the cruise lines save this info or discard it. Just think they know where you live, date of birth and what you look like.

 

I mean if you take a train or a plane or a bus they don't take your picture.

 

Seems like the cruise company knows more about you than the IRS? Does that bother you?

 

If you have a Facebook account, there is more information about you available than you could ever imagine. You are worried about a photo on a cruise ship? Try googling your own name and you may see your own photo as one of the returns, including information about you that may include some you don't wish to be public.

 

It's been a long time since any of us could reasonably expect privacy when doing business with travel companies. The illusion of privacy has sailed long ago.

 

And to answer your main question: No, it doesn't bother me if they keep or discard my photo. They already have personal information that I had to give them when booking my cruise - address, birth date, credit card number, etc. A photo is the most benign of all the information they have had for months before the cruise even started.