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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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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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Although aluminum foil is supposed to serve as a makeshift barrier against radio waves, experts therefore consider this protective measure redundant and useless.

Competent authorities retain in their records only data that was collected even before the introduction of electronic travel documents.

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