biometric information

Aadhaar database access in criminal investigation
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Kerala High Court directed UIDAI to compare fingerprints recovered from a double-murder crime scene with Aadhaar database records holding that the investigating agency was not seeking disclosure of core biometric information but only identification of persons whose fingerprints matched the crime-scene prints. Such a request was permissible under Section 33, Aadhaar Act when authorised by a High Court and did not offend the right to privacy.

Facebook face signature BIPA
Case BriefsForeign Courts

The Court stated that BIPA applies to those biometric identifiers and information that can identify a person thereby affirming that face signature is not a biometric identifier, hence there was no violation of BIPA.