The Budapest Declaration on Machine Readable Travel Documents is a declaration issued by the

Future of Identity in the Information Society The future is the time after the past and present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics. Due to the apparent nature of reality and the unavoidability of the future, everything that currently ...

(FIDIS), a

Network of Excellence The Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development, also called Framework Programmes or abbreviated FP1 to FP9, are funding programmes created by the European Union/European Commission to support and foster research in the Europea ...

, to raise the concern to the public to the risks associated by a security architecture related to the management of

Machine Readable Travel Document A machine-readable passport (MRP) is a machine-readable travel document (MRTD) with the data on the identity page encoded in optical character recognition format. Many countries began to issue machine-readable travel documents in the 1980s. Mos ...

s (MRTDs), and its current implementation in passports of the European Union that creates some threats related to identity theft, and privacy. The declaration was proclaimed in Budapest in September 2006.ePassports 'at risk' from cloning
BBC News, 15 December 2006

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