Recommendations and solutions for safer, more reliable electronic passports

The modern ePassport was meant to make identification more secure, yet problems remain. An EU project re-imagined the ePassport to close the gaps.

Numerous problems have undermined the security and convenience rationales of the ePassport concept, which was to include individual biometric data in the form of electronic chips. The EU-funded FIDELITY (Fast and trustworthy identity delivery and check with ePassports leveraging traveler privacy) project tackled these issues.

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