
A reader asks: “To record the time of entry and leaving work, we need to use a fingerprint scanner. The employer uses this information to account for work time. Is is this legal?”
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Reader questions: “In order to record the time of arriving and leaving work, we need to use a fingerprint scanner. The employer uses this information to account for work time. Is this legal?”
Answers Vladimir Logachev, leading consultant on legal legal issues of the Inspection of Labor:
Fingerprints and images of faces are considered biometric data, if their unique characteristics are processed, providing information about the physical features of the person. Biometric dataare alsothecodesreceivedwhenprocessingbiometrics.
Biometricdataarecodesreceivedwhenprocessingbiometrics.