You can't live in this world without revealing your KYC documents. House/hotel/car rentals, you need to reveal your KYC documents to get medical help, visit a doctor, get prescribed meds (if any). You have to reveal it to start work. I mean, there are many cases where you have to reveal your KYC documents and we can say for sure that our data isn't as protected as expected but still it's inevitable to give away all of these info. So, let's assume our data has been leaked, what's the point of rejecting other services that ask for KYC? Or do you hope that while your data was leaked, there is a chance that it got removed or lost and no one holds it? Or do you hope that it will be in hands of some people and isn't public? I mean, is your aim to keep this number of your KYC holders as narrow as possible?

Of course it is Btw passports and some id cards have a lot of patterns and when you try to remove watermark from them, you can mess up with it but if one digs deep into pixels, can really do wonders.

Life gets very hard if you do so, especially if you actively travel. But probably that's the price of privacy, just wonder how long can one keep living in such a discomfort.