Problems of using biometric technologies in municipalities

   Subject. The article analyzes issues related to the regulation and use of biometric technologies and biometric data.

   The choice of the object of the study is due to the intensive development and implementation of technologies based on the fact that biometric personal data are actively moving and used not only to provide power, but also in private organizations.

   At the municipal level, the problems of legal regulation and law enforcement are especially acute.

   The purpose of the study: based on the analysis of law enforcement practice and consideration of different approaches to regulating the use of biometric technologies, formulate specific proposals for improving the legal regulation of the use of biometric digital data when using face measurement technologies.

   Methodology. The methodological substantiation of the study was a set of methods of cognition, the methods of which were: monitoring of law enforcement practice, comparative legal method, analysis method, systemic-structural method.

   Conclusions. Based on the results of the study, the following conclusions were made: (1) Municipal biometric technologies are used to provide food for the purpose of: ensuring labor safety on the territory of the municipality; biometric identification and authentication, including when providing municipal services; data analysis and planning. (2) The conditions for limiting the rights and freedoms of an individual when using biometric technologies depend on the level of use of these technologies, as well as on the degree of regulatory regulation of their application. In conditions where the norms and rules are legally observed, the risks of negative consequences as a result of the use of data transmission technologies are the lowest. Blanket norms establishing exceptions for the use of biometric data have a negative impact on law enforcement practice. (3) Excessively strict restrictions, as well as a ban on the use of municipal government organizations and commercial organizations, technologies, actors in real time, do not allow for the organization of an effective public safety system, and therefore it is necessary to establish balanced legal regulation. The harmonization of this area will be facilitated by introducing amendments to the current legislation proposed by the authors of the article, aimed at, on the one hand, protecting the rights of an individual when using face and emotion technologies in public places, and, on the other hand, ensuring the possibility of using data technologies for the purpose of creating a modern level of security for the population in the territory of a municipality.

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