What is PD CEN/TS 16921 - Mobile biometric identification systems about?
PD CEN/TS 16921 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.
PD CEN/TS 16921 deals with biometric data coding, interfaces, performance tests as well as compliance tests. It is essential for interoperability that all these standards be applied in European deployments.
PD CEN/TS 16921 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.
Note 1: PD CEN/TS 16921 does not consider communication, infrastructure scalability, and security aspects other than those related to biometrics.
Note 2: PD CEN/TS 16921 also does not consider hardware and security requirements of biometric equipment and does not recommend general identification procedures.
Who is PD CEN/TS 16921 - Mobile biometric identification systems for?
PD CEN/TS 16921 on mobile biometric identification systems is useful for:
- Law enforcement and border control authorities
- Software engineers / IT firms
- Government authorities
- Airport authorities
- Firms that provide biometric equipment and services
- Biometric verification authorities
Why should you use PD CEN/TS 16921 - Mobile biometric identification systems?
PD CEN/TS 16921 provides you guidance for the use of mobile or portable identification capabilities as such systems have special biometrics characteristics: calibration problems, uncontrolled environment, specific biometric security aspects, that have to be considered differently for fixed-point solutions.
Law enforcement authorities can use mobile and especially hand-held systems to check a person’s identity under numerous circumstances, on borders as an identity check for border control purposes as well as inside the national borders for standard law enforcement purposes like suspect identity check, police checkpoint control, police swoop, etc.
PD CEN/TS 16921 provides you with recommendations for portable identity verification systems. This section includes European data protection regulation, Biometric security functions, and Biometric security description evaluation.
