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Name and email, you say? Check out the form you need to fill in to use free wifi at Brazilian airports: http://brazilsense.com/index.php?title=Wi-Fi_and_Intern
by alister 12y ago
Name and email, you say? Check out the form you need to fill in to use free wifi at Brazilian airports:
http://brazilsense.com/index.php?title=Wi-Fi_and_Internet_service_in_Brazil#Internet_at_airports http://brazilsense.com/index.php?title=Wi-Fi_and_Internet_se...
They want your:
name
sex
marital status
nationality
place of birth
profession
identity document type
identity document number
street address
city
state
country
cellular phone number
name of cellular provider
landline phone number
email address
barcode from your boarding pass
If you think that this is an April Fool's joke, I can assure you that it's real. Some of the above are optional on the form that's shown, but other airport ISPs in Brazil do insist that you fill in a lot of fields like the above.
I'm happy to say that the trend in the United States and Canada has been toward less or zero information for using wifi. Less than 10 years ago, it was quite common to see all sorts of questions to use wifi. And Internet cafes used to demand ID in the United States and Canada (and they still do in Brazil).
- chemicaloliver 12y agoAt Beijing airport if you're not Chinese they require a scan of your passport photo page at a special kiosk where they then give you a unique access code....
- schoen 12y agoI remember filling out that form. :-( I also remember checking into a Brazilian hotel, where they wanted Brazilian guests, at least, to specify their highest level of formal education (!), as well as profession, date of birth, and the city from which the guest arrived and the city to which the guest planned to travel next. I wonder if the last two are specifically meant to aid law enforcement investigations.
- smsm42 12y agoSo they'd learn my name is Al Kapone, my nationality is the proud citizen of the glorious nation of Kazakhstan, my place of birth is the South Pole, my profession is a lion tamer and I live in 666 Fake Street, Garbadedataville. What they're going to do with this information?
- meepmorp 12y agoWhat's lion taming like as a career?