Does Expedia train on your data?
Expedia's statement has a section on its use of AI: pricing, fraud, moderation and "feature generation" including embeddings. It never says whether any of it is trained on you.
This clause is real, but it doesn't resolve the training question - see the finding below.
"Feature generation To better understand our travellers and improve how our services work for you. To enrich other applications such as embeddings"
- 6 Sept 2026
- All accounts (Expedia, Hotels.com and Vrbo)
- global
- Saved by hand — not re-read automatically
- 786D0F1D…FB39
Why this is still UNCLEAR: The UK statement, 279 paragraphs saved by hand on 6 September 2026, carries a section headed "Our use of artificial intelligence" with a table of purposes: pricing, fraud detection, "feature generation ... to enrich other applications such as embeddings", and auto-moderation of listings and reviews. That is data going into AI systems; whether any model is trained on it is not said. "Training" appears fourteen times in the page and every one is staff training, information-security training or call recording for quality control. Chats with the AI assistant are collected as communications. Unresolved: the section describes uses, not training.
What each plan can refuse
The same questions, asked of every plan we could identify. Every cell comes from a quoted clause or a documented search - see the evidence above.
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How to opt out of Expedia AI training
Plan by plan, from what Expedia's own policy says about refusing. Where it publishes the steps, they're listed here with the limits they carry. Where there's nothing to switch off, or nothing graded, this says so instead of inventing a menu path.
All accounts (Expedia, Hotels.com and Vrbo)
Not graded, so no route is pointed at. The UK statement, 279 paragraphs saved by hand on 6 September 2026, carries a section headed "Our use of artificial intelligence" with a table of purposes: pricing, fraud detection, "feature generation ... to enrich other applications such as embeddings", and auto-moderation of listings and reviews. That is data going into AI systems; whether any model is trained on it is not said. "Training" appears fourteen times in the page and every one is staff training, information-security training or call recording for quality control. Chats with the AI assistant are collected as communications. Unresolved: the section describes uses, not training.
What this policy has done since we started watching
The record starts here. Expedia's policy was first captured on 6 Sept 2026, and there's no earlier copy to compare it against, so this verdict has no history behind it yet. From now on every re-read is diffed against that copy, and anything that moves appears here.
Everything we read
Vendor response
We haven't yet written to Expedia about this verdict, and they haven't disputed, clarified or announced a change to any clause quoted above. When either happens it's published here, word for word.
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