Law note · Turkmenistan
Law on Information About Private Life, biometric information
What it requires
- An app that processes a faceprint, voiceprint, or other biometric identifier of a Turkmen data subject must treat it as automatically confidential and limited to the purpose for which it was collected. The Act's own consent, retention, and destruction rules for biometric data specifically are deferred to other Turkmen legislation this research did not identify.
When LexLint raises it
processes_biometricsprocesses_voice
What we found
Biometric data sits outside the Art. 21 special-category list and is instead governed by three scattered provisions. Art. 1(1) defines it generally, with no illustrative list: information characterizing the physiological and biological features of a person and permitting establishment of the identity of the person. Art. 11(2) makes biometric data, along with data held in electronic information resources generally, automatically confidential and limited to the purpose for which it was collected.
Art. 7(7) defers the specifics of biometric information collection and processing entirely to unnamed other Turkmen legislation, the same deferral pattern this batch also finds word for word in Kazakhstan's Art. 11(3) and Tajikistan's Art. 11.