Law note · Uzbekistan
Law on Personal Data, special personal data
cite Law No. ZRU-547 (2 July 2019), Art. 25
stage IN FORCE in force since 2019-10-01
kind Sensitive categories
binds public and private bodies
reviewed 2026-08-29
What it requires
- An app processing an Uzbek data subject's racial, social-origin, political, religious, ideological, trade-union, health, private-life, or criminal-record data must have the subject's written consent, rely on a state-security purpose, or rely on data the subject has already published in publicly available sources; such processing is prohibited by default otherwise.
When LexLint raises it
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What we found
Art. 25 prohibits processing special personal data by default: racial or social origin, political, religious, or ideological beliefs, political-party or trade-union membership, physical or mental health, private life, and criminal record.
Processing is permitted only for state-security purposes by the authorized state body, on the subject's written or electronic consent, or where the subject has already published the special data in publicly available sources; this is a distinct track from Art. 26's biometric and genetic data, not a category that folds biometric data into it.