Personal biometric data as subjects of criminal law protection

Abstract

The relevance of the article is due to the fact that at present the use of the issue of the legal regime and the legality of obtaining, storing and processing various types of biometric personal data of a person is not fully resolved. The authors put forward a hypothesis that the illegal circulation of personal data, including biometric data, carries a potential threat to public relations. This article substantiates the need for criminal law protection of various types of biometric personal data and the improvement of domestic criminal law. To do this, you need to create new offenses. The article focuses on the analysis of laws and official technical documentation regulating the status of personal data, as well as law enforcement practice. The authors identified the current list of biometric personal data subjected to machine processing and proposed a new norm of the Criminal Code for their protection.