Law note · Kansas
Student Data Privacy Act, definitions of biometric data
The Student Data Privacy Act defines biometric data, K.S.A. 72-6313(b), as one or more measurable biological or behavioral characteristics usable for automated recognition of an individual, such as fingerprints, retina and iris patterns, voiceprints, DNA sequence, facial characteristics, and handwriting.
The definition never mentions a photograph, video, or audio recording in either an inclusion or exclusion clause; there is no clause imposing a recording-derived exclusion and none clawing one back, so whether an identifier derived from a recording is covered cannot be determined from this text and is not recorded as either true or false.
What it asks of an app
- Do not assume an identifier derived from a photograph, video, or audio recording is excluded from Kansas's Student Data Privacy Act biometric-data definition. It does not address a recording-derived source at all.
When LexLint raises it
Declared activities: processes_biometrics, processes_voice
Primary source: official Kansas statute text, Kansas Statutes Annotated, Office of Revisor of Statutes