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Budapest Declaration on Machine Readable Travel Documents
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<p> The Budapest Declaration on Machine Readable Travel Documents is a declaration issued by the Future of Identity in the Information Society (FIDIS), a <a href="/facts/Network_of_Excellence/Udy5lUQ7">Network of Excellence</a>, to raise the concern to the public to the risks associated by a security architecture related to the management of <a href="/facts/Machine_Readable_Travel_Document/osEDTf2E">Machine Readable Travel Documents</a> (MRTDs), and its current implementation in <a href="/facts/Passports_of_the_European_Union/zdGUkHkH">passports of the European Union</a> that creates some threats related to identity theft, and privacy. The declaration was proclaimed in Budapest in September 2006. </p>