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Wrapping passports in foil to stop hackers: new travel trend goes viral

Summary by Euronews
An unusual travel trend is causing a stir online: more and more holidaymakers are wrapping their passports in aluminium foil, clogging up passport control.

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On social media, a strange travel tip is gaining in popularity: cover your passport or wallet with aluminum paper to prevent potential thieves from recovering their data remotely.

·Paris, France
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Recently, the number of people carrying their passports wrapped in aluminum foil has increased on social media. However, experts say this method is unnecessary and that passport chips are extremely difficult to read from a distance.

·Türkiye
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Traveling with the well-kept passport has always been something that we have very much in mind when we go abroad. Losing it or suffering a robbery can seriously complicate a trip, but now there has appeared another fear related to something that is not seen at the naked eye: the chip of modern passports. And to avoid that ... Continue reading "New trend in travel: now tourists wrap passports in aluminum foil and serve for this"

·Madrid, Spain
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An unusual travel trend is causing quite a bit of attention online: more and more vacationers are wrapping their passports in aluminum foil, which is even causing delays at passport control in some places.

·Ljubljana, Slovenia
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The practice is based on the fear that hackers could "read" sensitive information wirelessly The post The new travel trend: They put aluminum foil on passports - What's the reason appeared first on in.gr.

·Greece
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The videos of travellers are multiplying by wrapping the passport in aluminium paper, in a trend that the strength of social networks is growing. Understands the reason and makes sense. As is the case of our day, trends arise on social networks, especially in TikTok. The latest, also disseminated in Reddit and [...]

·Lisboa, Portugal
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Euronews broke the news in Lyon, France on Tuesday, September 22, 2026.
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