How to protect your privacy when travelling

Don't leave your luggage unattended at airports and other public places.

The US$55mil (RM227.09mil) a Nashville, Tennessee, jury awarded Erin Andrews, a TV sports reporter, in a hotel stalker case has raised questions about hotel safety. What do you have a right to expect in terms of privacy? How worried should you be? And how can you protect yourself?

Andrews’ case stemmed from incidents in 2008 in which Michael David Barrett of Illinois videotaped her nude while she was in her room at the Nashville Marriott. The award was against Barrett as well as West End Hotel Partners and Windsor Capital Group, which manage the hotel. Marriott was dismissed from the suit.