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Biometric Data

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an individual’s physiological, biological, or behavioral characteristics, including information pertaining to an individual’s deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), that is used or is intended to be used singly or in combination with each other or with other identifying data, to establish individual identity. Biometric information includes, but is not limited to, imagery of the iris, retina, fingerprint, face, hand, palm, vein patterns, and voice recordings, from which an identifier template, such as a faceprint, a minutiae template, or a voiceprint, can be extracted, and keystroke patterns or rhythms, gait patterns or rhythms, and sleep, health, or exercise data that contain identifying information.

MWECalifornia Consumer Privacy Act of 2018

Senses

General Data Protection Regulation

personal data resulting from specific technical processing relating to the physical, physiological or behavioural characteristics of a natural person, which allow or confirm the unique identification of that natural person, such as facial images or dactyloscopic data;

An Introductin to Information Security

A measurable physical characteristic or personal behavioral trait used to recognize the identity, or verify the claimed identity, of an applicant. Facial images, fingerprints, and iris scan samples are all examples of biometrics.

Classifications

Entity Type

Credential90%rule-basedr:entity.credential.biometric.v1
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Sensitivity

Regulated85%rule-basedr:sens.regulated.framework.v1
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Information Class

Pii91%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

synonym
personal dataprocessing
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