Booking must share hosts’ identities after reservation, Austrian court says
( August 19, 2026, 10:27 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Accommodation platform Booking must disclose a private provider’s name and address to the customer immediately after a reservation is made, the Austrian Supreme Court has said. A decision dated May 20 was published on Tuesday by an Austrian consumer group that filed a lawsuit against Booking. The platform had argued that sharing providers’ identities would violate EU data protection principles of “purpose limitation” and “data limitation,” but the court disagreed, saying such information is required under Austria's unfair competition law.Statement follows, decision attached (both in German)....
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