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2021
Mishustin allowed taxis and car sharing to collect biometric data of drivers
In October 2021, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree of the Government of the Russian Federation, which approved a list of cases in which non-financial organizations will be able to collect and process personal biometric data of individuals in information systems.
As Vedomosti writes with reference to this document, published on the official portal of legal information, the authorities allowed to collect biometrics when entering the territory of organizations and participating in meetings of a civil nature, with the exception of cases related to the defense-industrial, fuel-energy and transport complex. Taxi and car sharing services are separately mentioned in this list.
The publication interviewed market participants. The "" Yandex said that the company will analyze the possibilities biometrics for taxis and car sharing. The representative BelkaCar believes that the use of biometrics can simplify the registration process, but there may be difficulties with integration. The taxi "" Maxims plans to identify drivers in the biometrics application.
Gett has been operating the ART KIS system in Moscow for more than two months, which makes sure that drivers do not process and undergo a medical examination. To do this, they hand over "data that allows them to be identified" and minimize the use of fake documents.
Ministry of Digital Development The assured that the government decree describes a situation when owners of a taxi or car sharing on their own initiative use commercial biometric systems. They will be able to provide biometric identification services only if there is accreditation for compliance with the requirements information security for and storage of biometric personal data. It will be held by the Ministry of Digital Development from 2022.[1][2]
Ministry of Digital Development will extend biometrics collection standards to banking systems
On August 18, 2021, it became known about the puns to Ministry of Digital Development extend the collection standards biometrics to commercial systems. So far, the requirements are imposed only on those who enter information into the Unified biometric System (). EBS
According to Kommersant, Ministry of Digital Development has prepared a draft government decree that establishes requirements for collecting data in the EBS and extends them to "other information systems that provide identification using biometric personal data."
Companies collecting data will have to coordinate with the ministry software, model and type of equipment for collecting and storing data. It must be certified by the FSTEC, and the profile employee must confirm his powers with an enhanced qualified electronic signature.
In addition, the document regulates the data collection process. In particular, the image should include the entire head of a person, including ears, the expression of the face should be neutral, retouching and framing of photos should not be allowed, the image should not contain foreign objects, glare and shadows. When recording a voice, a person will have to read the text in Russian, while the voice must sound normal, that is, without unnecessary intonations, there should also be no diseases that affect the sound of the voice.
Any company that collects biometric data for identification falls under the new regulation, explains the executive director of the Big Data Association (combines Yandex, Mail.ru Group, Sberbank, Gazprombank, Tinkoff Bank, MegaFon, Rostelecom, oneFactor, Qiwi, etc.) Alexey Neiman. In his opinion, large businesses are already spending significant resources on ensuring the security of their own systems, as well as on licensing them, but such regulation will add costs to small and medium-sized ones.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Mishustin allowed taxis and car sharing to collect biometric data of drivers Decree
- ↑ of the Government of the Russian Federation of 23.10.2021 No. 1815 "On approval of the list of cases of collecting and processing biometric personal data used for identification or identification and authentication in information systems of organizations that carry out identification and (or) authentication using biometric personal data of individuals, as well as cases of use by organizations, with the exception of credit institutions, non-bank financial institutions that carry out the Federal Law "On the Central Bank of the Russian Federation" specified in Part 1 of Article 761 (Bank of Russia) "types of activities, entities of the national payment system, individual entrepreneurs of these information systems for identification or identification and authentication of an individual who has expressed consent to their conduct"
- ↑ And other officialdom. Biometrics collection standards will be extended to commercial systems
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