Law on the Protection of Personal Data, biometric personal data

Law No. 1537 (3 August 2018), Art. 17; Art. 1; Art. 11

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In force since 3 August 2018.

A biometric privacy rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 29 August 2026.

What it requires

An app that processes a faceprint, voiceprint, or other biometric identifier of a Tajikistani data subject for identification purposes must obtain the subject's written consent, unless the processing falls within a justice, security, or law-enforcement exception. Confidentiality of biometric data specifically is deferred to other Tajik legislation, which the Act does not name and which is not identified here.

What this law does

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Art. 17, read in full, requires the subject's written consent to process biometric personal data for identification purposes, except in connection with criminal prosecution, administration of justice, enforcement of judicial acts, or defense, security, counter-terrorism, extremism, corruption, and money-laundering matters.

The Art. 1 definition is general, with no illustrative list naming face, voice, or fingerprint: personal data determining the physiological and biological features of the subject. Art. 11 defers biometric confidentiality specifically to unnamed other Tajik legislation, the same deferral pattern this batch also finds word for word in Kazakhstan's Art. 11(3) and Turkmenistan's Art. 7(7).

A dedicated, consent-gated biometric article does exist, so biometric data carries a heightened restriction here. Art. 27 provides that the Law is brought into force after its official publication; the Ministry of Justice's own legal acts portal records the document's start of effect as 3 August 2018, the same day it was signed.

When LexLint raises it

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Read the law

official text, National Center of Legislation under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan (ncz.tj)

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