Law on Information About Private Life, biometric information

Law No. 519-V (20 March 2017), Arts. 1(1), 7(7), 11(2)

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In force since 1 July 2017.

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 Turkmen data subject must treat it as automatically confidential and limited to the purpose for which it was collected. The Act's own consent, retention, and destruction rules for biometric data specifically are deferred to other Turkmen legislation, which the Act does not name and which is not identified here.

What this law does

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Biometric data sits outside the Art. 21 special-category list and is instead governed by three scattered provisions. Art. 1(1) defines it generally, with no illustrative list: information characterizing the physiological and biological features of a person and permitting establishment of the identity of the person. Art. 11(2) makes biometric data, along with data held in electronic information resources generally, automatically confidential and limited to the purpose for which it was collected.

Art. 7(7) defers the specifics of biometric information collection and processing entirely to unnamed other Turkmen legislation, the same deferral pattern this batch also finds word for word in Kazakhstan's Art. 11(3) and Tajikistan's Art. 11.

When LexLint raises it

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Read the law

official text, Human Rights Ombudsman of Turkmenistan (converted from the site's RTF publication)

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