prDS CEN/TR 18241:2025

Privacy management in products and services - Biometric access control products and services

Scope

This document contains recommendations on how to integrate the principle of ‘data protection and privacy by design’
during the entire lifecycle of biometric access-control products and services, in order to achieve ‘data protection and
privacy by default’.
Biometric facial recognition for access control is covered by this document. Biometric facial recognition for surveillance is
covered by CEN/CLC/JTC 13 TR ‘Video surveillance’.
This document specifies recommendations for the management of data protection and privacy by design in biometricaccess-
control products and services. This document extends ISO/IEC 27552. This document applies to aspects of data
protection and privacy by design. This document is not applicable to non-biometric aspects of access control, or to aspects
not relating to data protection or privacy.

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