Biometric data
Under GDPR Article 4(14), 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 person, such as facial images or fingerprint data. A photo alone is not biometric data; running recognition processing against it creates biometric data.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 2 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Data Governance: The Data Chair.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
Under GDPR Article 4(14), 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 person, such as facial images or fingerprint data. A photo alone is not biometric data; running recognition processing against it creates biometric data.
Personal data resulting from specific technical processing of a person's physical, physiological, or behavioral characteristics, such as facial geometry, that allows or confirms unique identification of that person. Treated as a special, more heavily regulated category of data under GDPR Article 9 and similar frameworks.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- Special categories and the fields you did not know were sensitive · Consent, Purpose, and the Law of Data, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.