Digital Code, special categories of personal data

Digital Code, Law No. 178, Art. 80

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In force 8 months, effective 6 February 2026.

A sensitive categories rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 29 August 2026.

What it requires

An app that processes biometric data for the digital identification of a Kyrgyzstani data subject, including a voiceprint or faceprint, must satisfy one of Art. 80(2)'s narrow lawful grounds before processing; such processing is prohibited by default otherwise. The Code itself supplies no illustrative list of biometric modalities for this general provision.

What this law does

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Art. 80(1), read in full and confirmed word for word against the official portal, prohibits processing by default: data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political views, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade-union membership; genetic information; biometric data for the digital identification of a natural person; and data concerning health, sex life, or sexual orientation.

Art. 80(2) lifts the prohibition for contract necessity, explicit statutory authorization, vital-interest necessity, data the subject has explicitly made public, medical or public-health purposes, and (in part) membership processing by an association or religious organization.

No definition of biometric data as a general term was found anywhere in the official Code text (confirmed by a search for the root "биометрич" (biometric) across the whole document, which surfaces only Art. 48's state-system provisions and Art. 80(1)(3)'s bare category name); the only enumerated biometric-modality list in the Code is Art. 48(3)'s narrower, government-identification-system-specific list, confirmed at the official source to read exactly: digital facial image, papillary-pattern fingerprints of both hands, and handwritten signature, naming no voice modality, which should not be read as governing this general provision.

When LexLint raises it

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Read the law

official government portal
Centralized Bank of Legal Information of the Kyrgyz Republic (cbd.minjust.gov.kg), which serves its full text only through a browser render: the URL itself serves only a 1,961-character JavaScript shell with zero hits for any Chapter 11 term, while a browser render returns the whole 657,172-character document confirmed directly against this URL

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