A new international standard for how to test for equitability and bias in biometric systems has been approved. The ISO/IEC 19795-10 is expected to be published soon.
Part 10: Quantifying biometric system performance variation across demographic groups, is expected to be incorporated into various system requirements and other standards, including a new ICAO biometric passport standard, to increase the fairness of the biometric systems.
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