Law / United States / 
Virginia
Fingerprints furnished in a business, commercial or financial transaction: return or destruction
In force since .
A biometric privacy rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Biometric, Retention
As of .
What it requires
- If you require another person to furnish a fingerprint or fingerprints in conjunction with a business, commercial or financial transaction, then, unless the parties otherwise agree, within 21 days of the transaction's completion or termination return to the person the original record of the prints and all copies, including electronic or facsimile copies, or destroy them.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does an employer's request for a fingerprint from a job applicant or employee count as a "business, commercial or financial transaction" under the section?
What this law does
Whenever any person requires another to furnish a fingerprint or fingerprints in conjunction with a business, commercial or financial transaction, unless the parties otherwise agree, the person must within 21 days of the transaction's completion or termination return or destroy the original record of the prints and all copies, including electronic or facsimile copies. The section does not apply to fingerprints affixed to instruments governed by Titles 8.3A and 8.4.
Chapter 715 of the 1999 Acts of Assembly numbered the section 59.1-480 in a new chapter 41 of Title 59.1. Chapter 715 of the 1999 Acts of Assembly took effect on .
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app processes biometric data.