GDPR Article 9 and Act Section 78, National Birth Number

Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Art. 9; Zakon c. 18/2018 Z. z., section 78

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Commencement not set.

A sensitive categories rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 24 August 2026.

What it requires

Obtain an explicit General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Article 9(2) legal basis before processing biometric, genetic, or health data of a person in Slovakia.
Do not process or disclose a Slovak birth number (rodne cislo) without the data subject's explicit consent or their own prior disclosure, per commentary describing Act Section 78; verify this against the Act's own text before relying on it.

What it reaches

Excludes recording-derived identifiersNo

What this law does

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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Article 9(1) treats biometric data processed for unique identification as a special category. Commentary (CMS) quotes the Act as permitting biometric, genetic, and health data processing on the basis of a special regulation or an international agreement, a general enabling clause rather than a substantive biometric-specific carve-out; no employment-biometric consent or works-council rule was found in either commentary source.

A separate, more specific commentary-sourced finding, Section 78, protects the Slovak birth number (rodne cislo): explicit consent is required to process it, and public disclosure is prohibited unless the data subject discloses it themself. None of this is independently verified against the Act's own text.

No commencement date is recorded for this instrument: no primary-source text was read and this rests entirely on commentary, so the status here is enacted rather than in force, rather than an asserted but unconfirmed effective date.

When LexLint raises it

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Read the law

CMS and DLA Piper commentary
the Act's own text is not reproduced

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