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by ghaff 1466 days ago
Not quite the same thing but it's quite common for hotels (in Europe in particular) to make a copy of your passport, for auto dealerships (at least in the US) to make a copy of your driver's license for a test drive, and many many other situations. I'm sure I'm forgetting lots of other cases. (And Twitter requires for verified accounts.)