Hi. This may sound stupid, but is it safe to renew a passport in most places if it’s been years since it’s been expired?

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Hi.

I know a little bit about privacy, but want to increase my knowledge.

I follow different blogs, subreddits on the topic of privacy and heard of this place.

I have started replacing apps/services I use with more privacy-friendly alternatives.

But my question is related to renewing a passport and for privacy reasons I don’t want to say my country, but to help you help me narrow it down let’s say it’s in Europe in one of the bigger countries.

I’ve heard traveling is not considered private, but I don’t have much experience of traveling abroad and want to know if it’s likely renewing a years-expired passport is deeply harmful to my privacy or okay because they likely already have my information already from my original passport or by other means.

I’m not saying this because I have an urgent (emergency) need to travel, but is renewing a passport in a large European country giving them any more of my data than they have already?

Also, what risk would I be to a data breach?

Appreciate any help anyone can give.

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Dunno about your country but in mine, everyone have national ID with national personal number, so when you making passport, you just legitimate yourself with national ID and they have all your data in system already. Only new thing is fresh photo that you need to supply.

And yes, data breach is highly likelly, at least for my country. There’s nobody sane at higher ups and they dissmiss anyone sane from administration.
And it is EU country.