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The Code requires agencies to pass an “effectiveness and proportionality” or necessity test before collecting biometric data, limits highly intrusive uses (for example emotion-prediction or inferring ethnicity), and obliges transparency about retention and purpose — all provisions designed to be legally enforceable in the privacy regulator’s toolkit.
The (EES) formally began a phased rollout on 12 October 2025 with all participating required to start using the system at least at one external border crossing point on that date, and full activation ...
has recently put a -code">Biometric Processing Privacy Code into force that creates binding rules for any organisation — public or private — that uses automated biometric systems, and it explicitly ad...