National Biometric Security Project (NBSP) has announced the availability of a new update to the published and emerging biometric standards that include 17 new standards since the previous incarnation released in September 2009. The new listing of standards brings the total to 111 with an additional 95 standards outlined as emerging standards that are under consideration. Many of the standards listed were put in place to increase security, ease interoperability between different companies’ products, ease interfacing with specific technology and standards put in place to assist developers creating new technologies.  

Members of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), a commission setup by the Indian Government to manage the process of providing the country’s citizens with unique ID numbers that correspond to biometrics, are recommending that biometric systems be put into place to protect the large amounts of sensitive data being collected and stored in the country, according to a Times of India article.