Budapest Declaration on Machine Readable Travel Documents

The Budapest Declaration on Machine Readable Travel Documents is a Public declaration that was issued by the NoE FIDIS to raise the concern to the public to the risks associated by a security architecture related to the management of Machine Readable Travel Documents (MRTDs), and its current implementation in the European passport that creates some threats related to identity theft, and privacy.

This declaration was proclaimed in Budapest in September 2006, by a group of researchers from the FIDIS Network of Excellence.

The Budapest Declaration has received an important coverage from the press (newspapers , radio, television).

References

• Budapest Declaration on Machine Readable Travel Documents (MRTDs)
• FIDIS
• Biometric ID cards an insecure menace, says EU ID outfit, The Register, 10th November 2006