时政新闻学英语之70：酒店为泄露个人信息致歉

本文选自中国日报，原文链接Hotels apologize for leak of whistleblower（告密者）'s personal information。

Global hospitality giants Hilton and IHG have apologized for the actions of employees who leaked personal information about a blogger（微博用户） who revealed shoddy（劣质的） cleaning practices at 14 luxury hotels across the country.

Zhou Zhaocheng, the blogger's lawyer, said in a written response to China Daily on Monday that by working with police, regulators（监管者） of the hospitality industry and department of commerce and industry, he and his client are now trying to pinpoint（精准定位） the source of the leak, and they reserve the right to sue the two groups.

Wu Dong, a blogger known online as Hua Zong Diu Le Jin Gu Bang, posted information about the leak on his social media account on Friday, two days after he exposed the hotels.

In a screenshot（截图） from a WeChat group shared by Wu, an alleged（指认为） employee of Hilton Garden Inn Guiyang sent a picture of Wu's passport information page to the group and warned everyone to alert each other if the passport holder checks in（登记入住） at the property.

A similar screenshot including not only personal information but derogatory（贬低评论） comments about his appearance was posted by Wu on Saturday. The screenshot is believed to be from a group chat for IHG employees.

In an email response to China Daily, IHG said it had confirmed that the person who sent the passport photo to the group chat is an employee. The employee has submitted a written apology to Wu and will cooperate with an investigation（调查）, it said.

The Nov 14 posting of the video exposing the shoddy and unhygienic（不卫生的） cleaning practices at the luxury hotels coincided with the opening of one of IHG's most anticipated（广为期待） properties in China, a hotel built in a former quarry（采石场） in Shanghai, which took a decade to design and build.

Hilton Group did not respond to questions sent by China Daily regarding the leak of Wu's information. Its Guiyang property（分支） has posted an apology letter on its social media account.

Zhou, the attorney, said no response had been received from Hilton, but he received the apology letter from IHG in person.

"The precondition of accepting the apologies is that they help us to find out the source of the leak," he said.

In an interview with Guangzhou Daily on Sunday, Wu said the hotels in his video should "solve the problem instead of solve me".

The 11-minute video by Wu recorded housekeepers from Hilton's Conrad Beijing and Waldorf Astoria Shanghai, and another 12 properties, cleaning glasses with soiled（污染的） towels or the same cloth that had been used to wipe toilet seats. None of IHG's properties were mentioned in the video.

The video was viewed more than 35.6 million times within five days of its release and sparked（引发） heated discussion about the value of luxury hotels in China, one of the world's fastest-growing hospitality（旅游接待） markets.