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The objective of this paper is to outline the potential threats to security and privacy that are associated with biometric-enabled applications, to summarize the resulting requirements to ensure secure and private handling of personal data, and to explain why standardization in this area is required. The currently ongoing standardization efforts in ISO/IEC in the area of biometric template protection are described.
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Biometric-enabled applications have the potential to become wide spread. A joint strategy is required to materialize the associated benefits of cost reduction, improved user authentication and increased convenience to prevent these benefits from being overshadowed by security and privacy threats and vendor lock-ins. ISO is supporting this strategy with a new standard on privacy compliant biometric systems.
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Breebaart, J., Yang, B., Buhan-Dulman, I. et al. Biometric template protection. DuD 33, 299–304 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11623-009-0089-0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11623-009-0089-0