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If someone loses their passport while traveling they are often locked out of access to their home country, let alone their digital life. It is not permissible
by lrvick 5y ago
If someone loses their passport while traveling they are often locked out of access to their home country, let alone their digital life.
It is not permissible to use digital backup copies of paper identity documents in most countries but with digital identity you can make all the backups you want and store them places hard to lose. Travelers would be wise to do so. It is free and reasonably easy. There is just a training gap, the tech is here.
Personally I keep an AES encrypted backup needed for emergency recovery of my digital life implanted in my body. Others I know use NFC rings.
- anchpop 5y agoif you lose your passport while in a foreign country you’re permanently locked out of ever traveling back home? that can’t possibly be true. I can see it being hard if you have no living family though
- randomswede 5y agoFirst starting point for "I lost my passport" should be "visit your embassy in the country you are in". It may not be an instant solution, but should normally result in a temporary passport you can use to travel home with, then once home you should be able to bootstrap from there.