Nearly all government services require you to provide your personal data and most recently and worryingly, your biometric data. The collection of citizens' biometric data raises pertinent questions on the importance of that data as well as its protection. Biometric data is classified as special data, which requires a higher level of protection in the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) that came into force in the EU last May. Amongst all the agencies authorised to collect personal data, none of them have a disclosed Data Protection Policy for its staff. It is quite clear that the collection of biometric data should be held off until there is in place legislation on data protection.

Source: The Star February 12, 2019 21:33 UTC