BS PD CEN/TS 16921:2016 primarily focuses on biometric aspects of portable verification and
identification systems for law enforcement and border control authorities. The recommendations given
here will balance the needs of security, ease of access and data protection.ISO/IEC has published a series of standards dealing with biometric data coding, interfaces, performance
tests as well as compliance tests. It is essential for interoperability that all these standards are applied
in European deployments. However, ISO/IEC standards do not consider national or regional
characteristics; in particular, they do not consider European Union privacy and data protection
regulation as well as accessibility and usability requirements.This Technical Specification extends the ISO standards by emphasizing specific European needs (for
example EU data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and European databases access). The Technical
Specification systematically discusses issues to be considered when planning, deploying and using
portable identity verification systems and gives recommendations for those types of systems that are or
will be in use in Europe.Communication, infrastructure scalability, and security aspects other than those related to biometrics
are not considered. This document also does not consider hardware and security requirements of
biometric equipment and does not recommend general identification procedures.Cross References:CEN/TS 16634:2014ISO/IEC/TR 24714-1ISO/IEC 29197FprCEN/TS 16920:2015All current amendments available at time of purchase are included with the purchase of this document.