AI Act Documents:
Recital 15
(15) The notion of ‘biometric identificationbiometric identificationmeans the automated recognition of physical, physiological, behavioural, or psychological human features for the purpose of establishing the identity of a natural person by comparing biometric databiometric datameans personal data resulting from specific technical processing relating to the physical, physiological or behavioural characteristics of a natural person, such as facial images or dactyloscopic dataArticle 3(34) of that individual to biometric databiometric datameans personal data resulting from specific technical processing relating to the physical, physiological or behavioural characteristics of a natural person, such as facial images or dactyloscopic dataArticle 3(34) of individuals stored in a databaseArticle 3(35)’ referred to in this Regulation should be defined as the automated recognition of physical, physiological and behavioural human features such as the face, eye movement, body shape, voice, prosody, gait, posture, heart rate, blood pressure, odour, keystrokes characteristics, for the purpose of establishing an individual’s identity by comparing biometric databiometric datameans personal data resulting from specific technical processing relating to the physical, physiological or behavioural characteristics of a natural person, such as facial images or dactyloscopic dataArticle 3(34) of that individual to stored biometric databiometric datameans personal data resulting from specific technical processing relating to the physical, physiological or behavioural characteristics of a natural person, such as facial images or dactyloscopic dataArticle 3(34) of individuals in a reference database, irrespective of whether the individual has given its consentconsentAny freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subjectsubjectfor the purpose of real-world testing, means a natural person who participates in testing in real-world conditionsArticle 3(58)'s wishes by which they signify agreement to the processing of their personal dataGDPR Art. 4(11) or not. This excludes AI systems intended to be used for biometric verificationbiometric verificationmeans the automated, one-to-one verification, including authentication, of the identity of natural persons by comparing their biometric databiometric datameans personal data resulting from specific technical processing relating to the physical, physiological or behavioural characteristics of a natural person, such as facial images or dactyloscopic dataArticle 3(34) to previously provided biometric databiometric datameans personal data resulting from specific technical processing relating to the physical, physiological or behavioural characteristics of a natural person, such as facial images or dactyloscopic dataArticle 3(34)Article 3(36), which includes authentication, whose sole purpose is to confirm that a specific natural person is the person he or she claims to be and to confirm the identity of a natural person for the sole purpose of having access to a service, unlocking a device or having security access to premises.