Concerning the need to implement the system of collection and use of biometric data of persons who represent the national security of Ukraine

Abstract

The article examines new ways to search for and recognize persons who pose a threat to the national security of Ukraine, through the implementation of a system for collecting and using biometric data of such persons. It is noted that currently authorized state bodies report to the State Border Guard Service only such information about a person of certain operational interest that allows him to be identified only by a passport or other document certifying his identity. However, such control makes it impossible to identify a person in the event that he provides forged documents or documents that contain inaccurate information about him. This requires the introduction at the state level of a system of collecting and using biometric data of persons who pose a threat to the national security of Ukraine. Attention is drawn to the fact that law enforcement agencies of foreign countries have recently been actively using information and search systems for biometric identification of a person. Biometric identification is a means of identity verification; belongingness of the passport to its owner by recognizing and comparing biometric data (eye color, retina pattern, fingerprints, hand geometry, facial features, etc.) recorded by the carriers of these data with the owner’s personal data. The article provides a list of physiological and behavioral characteristics of a person, on the basis of which systems of biometric authentication are built. It is concluded that in order to ensure the procedure of identification of persons at checkpoints across the state border of Ukraine, it is necessary to introduce mechanisms for the collection and accumulation of information on the biological characteristics of persons who pose a threat to the national security of Ukraine at the legislative level. In particular, it is necessary to determine the list of biological signs that will be collected, to establish the subjects of the security sector responsible for their collection, to introduce a procedure for accumulating this information, to determine the subject responsible for the formation and maintenance of this data bank, as well as to provide this information to interested state institutions and departments.