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Biometric data

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Personal data from the technical processing of physical, physiological or behavioural traits that allows or confirms a person's unique identification, such as facial images or fingerprints 1. Identification, verification and categorisation are treated differently across the GDPR, the AI Act and other laws.

Developed in
ch. 19, Biometrics
Chapters
ch. 19, Privacy & AI
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

4 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Biometric data: mentions per chapter6 mentions of the term across 4 of the 23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge; the chapters the glossary cross-references are drawn solid.Cross-referenced chapterOther chapter08 Regulatory Map: 1 mention08 Regulatory Map111 AI Defined: 1 mention11 AI Defined119 Privacy & AI: 3 mentions19 Privacy & AI320 Existing Law: 1 mention20 Existing Law1No mentions in the other 19 chaptersSource: the Body of Knowledgev0.5.0
Biometric data: mentions per chapter6 mentions of the term across 4 of the 23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge; the chapters the glossary cross-references are drawn solid.Cross-referenced chapterOther chapter000102030405060708 Regulatory Map: 1 mention1081011 AI Defined: 1 mention1111213141516171819 Privacy & AI: 3 mentions31920 Existing Law: 1 mention120212223Source: the Body of Knowledge v0.5.0
Mentions per chapter How often each chapter names the term, with the chapters the glossary cross-references drawn solid. The longest bar is where to read the term in use; bars spread across many chapters mark a term that runs through the discipline.
Mentions as a table
Mentions of Biometric data per chapter
ChapterMentionsCross-referenced
00 Preface0No
01 Definition0No
02 Why Now0No
03 Values & Principles0No
04 The Stack0No
05 Patterns0No
06 The Role0No
07 Maturity Model0No
08 Regulatory Map1No
10 Reading List0No
11 AI Defined1No
12 Governance Program0No
13 Risk Management0No
14 Development0No
15 Deployment0No
16 Fairness & XAI0No
17 Incidents0No
18 EU AI Act0No
19 Privacy & AI3Yes
20 Existing Law1No
21 AI Laws Worldwide0No
22 Principles & Standards0No
23 AI Agents0No
  • AI Act (EU)

    Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the EU's horizontal, risk-tiered law for AI, amended by the Digital Omnibus.

Sources

  1. [1] Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) (Arts. 4(1), 4(5), 4(7), 4(8), 4(12), 4(14), 5, 6, 9, 12(3), 22, 25, 28(2) and 28(4), 30, 33, 35; Recital 26). Publications Office of the EU (EUR-Lex). 2016-04-27. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj/eng (verified: primary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Biometric data. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/biometric-data. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026biometricdata,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Biometric data}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/biometric-data}
}