Law / United States / 
Kansas
Student Data Privacy Act, definitions of biometric data
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Do not assume an identifier derived from a photograph, video, or audio recording is excluded from Kansas's Student Data Privacy Act biometric-data definition. It does not address a recording-derived source at all.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Is a faceprint or voiceprint that a school vendor derives from a student's photograph or recording 'biometric data' under K.S.A. 72-6313(b), which lists 'facial characteristics' and 'voiceprints' but states no rule on data generated from a photograph or recording?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
The section only defines terms for K.S.A. 72-6312 to 72-6320 (biometric data, student data, personally identifiable student data, school district and others). It imposes no duty to keep a log or record, names no audit and gives no party a right to a record. It states no territorial clause.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
The Student Data Privacy Act defines biometric data, K.S.A. 72-6313(b), as one or more measurable biological or behavioral characteristics usable for automated recognition of an individual, such as fingerprints, retina and iris patterns, voiceprints, DNA sequence, facial characteristics, and handwriting.
The definition never mentions a photograph, video, or audio recording in either an inclusion or exclusion clause; there is no clause imposing a recording-derived exclusion and none clawing one back, so whether an identifier derived from a recording is covered cannot be determined from this text.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app processes biometric data.
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