@Cormac0
If there's one thing Airbnb has never supported, it's data transparency - from their skewed, strategically-targeted 'surveys', to their ubiquitous miraculous rebound story ("Yaaay! 1 million nights booked on July 8th!" Eh, maybe.. but how many cancellations on the same date, to give us the real picture?), to the hundreds of millions they've spent on legal battles over the last decade, fighting to win the rights not to be compelled to hand over data to authorities, to the ridiculous hoops they make police forces around the world jump through in order to obtain information on rogue and criminal guests, often even in urgent and time-sensitive cases.
And considering the proposed provisions of the Digital Act, they'll be "welcoming" this development like a hole in the head. You've got to love how, in their public consultations response, they lay out the conditions under which they'd be willing to "support" the Act - as if they'll actually have a choice in the matter! - and also how they're already trying to invoke the EUs own laws (privacy/GDPR) as potential future get-out clauses for themselves. Something tells me Margarethe Vestager and crew are not going to be buying any of that 😏
Here's a classic real-life, fly-on-the-wall demonstration of Airbnb's 'data transparency' in action for you, @Cormac0 - a behind-the-scenes video of when Patrick Robinson, Airbnb Director of Public Policy and his then-assistant Natasha Mytton-Mills were called upon by the Irish government to present the company's case to an all-party committee that was set up to investigate the potential impact of short-term rentals on Ireland's housing and rental markets. An absolute masterclass in how to swerve tricky questions and not give a straight answer to anything you're asked. Ducking and diving at its finest. It's little wonder that Irish hosts were subsequently hit with such restrictive regulations when you see the slippery, evasive goings-on here. (From around 1 hr, 11 mins in)
Oireachtas committees – Houses of the Oireachtas
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/oireachtas-tv/video-archive/committees/925/
Penelope