Digital Code, special categories of personal data

Art. 80(1), read in full and confirmed word for word against the official portal in a reviewer pass, prohibits processing by default: data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political views, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade-union membership; genetic information; biometric data for the digital identification of a natural person; and data concerning health, sex life, or sexual orientation.

Art. 80(2) lifts the prohibition for contract necessity, explicit statutory authorization, vital-interest necessity, data the subject has explicitly made public, medical or public-health purposes, and (in part) membership processing by an association or religious organization.

No definition of biometric data as a general term was found anywhere in the official Code text (confirmed by a reviewer-pass search for the root "биометрич" across the whole document, which surfaces only Art. 48's state-system provisions and Art. 80(1)(3)'s bare category name); the only enumerated biometric-modality list in the Code is Art. 48(3)'s narrower, government-identification-system-specific list, confirmed at the official source to read exactly: digital facial image, papillary-pattern fingerprints of both hands, and handwritten signature, naming no voice modality, which should not be read as governing this general provision.