Post #1504557
2026-04-21 21:59 UTC
@funkylab @evawolfangel In hotels in some countries passports/IDs are scanned and stored to be given to the police. Happens at least in Italy. I doubt anything prevents the hotel staff from making unauthorized copies of the scanned passport/ID images and give to criminals that pay them for the information.
Back in the days (not many decades ago) it was completely normal to give your passport to hotel staff upon arrival, and they kept it over the first night, or for the whole stay. Also, in night trains it was completely normal to give your passport to the carriage attendant so that they would show it at border controls while you could sleep.
I agree about home address. But on the other hand, do you subscribe to any (physical) newspapers or magazines? Have you ever ordered food to be delivered at your home? Ordered goods online for delivery at your home? Do you trust all these companies to not leak your address?
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@funkylab@mastodon.social 2026-04-21 22:02
@tml @evawolfangel yes, but the scans aren't kept in large cebtraluzed databases.again, all of this data is very sensitive to me and I expect hotels just as much as eurail to treat it better than that.
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@evawolfangel@chaos.social 2026-04-21 22:18
@tml I have a lot of energy to discuss with hotels that I don’t want them to take a copy of my passport. Quite often I can convince them. Some just give up. Some are happy with my passport with other data. 😜 None of them gets my real home address. There are also solutions for deliveries. For example using another name. If you really need to be secure, you will find creative ways. Trusting companies that they don’t leak your data is not part of that. Because they *will* leak your data. @funkylab