חוק נטילת אמצעי זיהוי ביומטריים מזרים, הפקת נתוני זיהוי ביומטריים ומאגר מידע, התשפ"ד-2024Law on Taking Biometric Identification Measures from Foreigners, Production of Biometric Identification Data and Database, 2024 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

It is determined that an employee of the Ministry of Interior or another public employee authorized by the Minister may take biometric identification means and extract biometric identification data from them, for the purpose of including them in the biometric database established under the Law. In addition, it was decided to allow Ministry of Foreign Affairs employees to perform actions before the arrival of foreigners in the country in order to streamline the identification process, and it was also decided to allow the use of designated means for obtaining biometric information. In addition, the Law specifies the officials authorized to conduct a comparison between biometric identification means taken from a foreigner and his travel document, and details the officials authorized to compare the identification means taken with those included in the database. The conditions under which biometric identification means may be taken using reasonable force, and the manner in which taking will be carried out in these exceptional cases, were also established. In addition, the proposed Law establishes arrangements intended to preserve the privacy of foreigners from whom biometric identification means were taken, arrangements for preserving the human dignity and privacy of a foreigner from whom biometric means are taken, restrictions on those authorized to perform actions under the established arrangement, special provisions regarding the preservation of information and preventing its accumulation in secondary databases not managed under this Law. In addition, provisions were established intended to ensure the confidentiality of the information in the database, and the security of the information therein, among other things, through supervision and control mechanisms to be operated by the official in charge of biometric applications, as well as supervision of information preservation and privacy protection by an employee whose role this will be.

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