{
  "slug": "recovery-without-the-id-upload",
  "title": "Why does losing your phone mean uploading your passport?",
  "summary": "Institutions re-verify you from documents because they never bound you to a key. Here is what continuity-based account recovery looks like instead.",
  "lede": "You have banked with them for nine years. They have your salary history, your address, your spending patterns, and roughly four thousand data points about your life. You lose a phone, and they ask you to photograph a passport and take a selfie, as though you were a stranger. There is a reason, and it is not a good one.",
  "date": "2026-09-14",
  "reading_time": "16 min read",
  "category": "Consumer",
  "tags": ["account recovery", "identity verification", "KYC", "injection attacks", "biometric privacy", "continuity", "passkey recovery"],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Recovery%20Without%20ID%20Upload/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/recovery-without-the-id-upload.html",
  "wordcount": 3863,
  "related": ["passkey-recovery-weakest-link", "kyc-injection-attacks", "add-authenticator-takeover"],
  "schema": "Article"
}