From Cosmopolitan UK

Well this is an unusual one. A German woman has taken a hotel to court in a bid to discover the identity of a fellow guest after the pair engaged in a three-day fling at the hotel, but failed to exchange details afterwards.

Following the brief tryst between the pair of strangers, the unnamed woman discovered she was pregnant. Realising the baby, a son she gave birth to back in 2010, was likely to belong to the man she'd met at the hotel, she wanted to track him down. But the pair had not exchanged full names or contact details, so all she knew of the mystery man was that his first name was Michael, reports The Telegraph.

Assessing her options, the woman contacted the hotel in Halle, eastern Germany, to request customer details which would identify the man. But despite the extraordinary circumstances, the hotel refused to share the personal information.

The woman was keen to contact the man because she wanted to seek child support from him, so she pushed further for the hotel to reveal his identity. But after having no luck, she took them to court, arguing that the hotel had a duty to reveal this usually confidential information due to the child involved.

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Frustratingly for the mother, however, The Telegraph reports that the court found in favour of the hotel back in October last year, ruling they had no legal obligation to share the customer information. The Judge also ruled there wasn't enough certainty surrounding the identity of the guest to be certain which customer it was. There were four men staying in the hotel at that time with the first name Michael, the court heard, meaning it could theoretically have been any of them - the woman's information wasn't specific enough.

The court has only just published details of the case now, six months after the decision was made, in a public report entitled 'Father Roulette', where it explains its decision on the matter. The report reads:

"This right [to privacy] is affected by the exposure of the data because as a result, the possibility of [the man having] a sexual relationship with the complainant, as the mother of the child, would be irrefutably placed in the room."

It's well known that German privacy laws are some of the strictest in Europe, and subsequently the Munich Appeal Court has refused to review the case any further.

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From Cosmopolitan UK

Well this is an unusual one. A German woman has taken a hotel to court in a bid to discover the identity of a fellow guest after the pair engaged in a three-day fling at the hotel, but failed to exchange details afterwards.

Following the brief tryst between the pair of strangers, the unnamed woman discovered she was pregnant. Realising the baby, a son she gave birth to back in 2010, was likely to belong to the man she'd met at the hotel, she wanted to track him down. But the pair had not exchanged full names or contact details, so all she knew of the mystery man was that his first name was Michael, reports The Telegraph.

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