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I'm going to visit Switzerland soon. I will be travelling with my national ID card (I'm EU citizen).

Last time I visited Switzerland my ID was scanned / copied at the hotel during check-in. Unfortunately it seems like a common practice there.

I have no problem presenting my ID card for verification of my identity etc, I just don't like the perspective of my personal data being stored on some piece of paper in a non-secure way.

How can this be easily prevented? I mean once I'm there on site, it's late night and I really need to check in... Is there any regulation or local law that I could call upon to refuse scanning/copying my ID card?

Zgred
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I would ask. Explain that you are uncomfortable with their keeping an image of your card and you would prefer them to record the information by hand. They might agree to do so.

If they don't, then it would probably be correct to infer that there is no regulation or law preventing them from taking an image: their lawyer knows Swiss law better than you ever will. And, of course, any legal challenge will take too long to resolve.

For what it's worth, when I checked in to my hotel last night, they typed the information from my ID into the computer without making a copy of it.

phoog
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