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Biometrics self-enrolment feasibility trials: privacy information notice

How your personal information is used within biometrics self-enrolment feasibility trials.

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Home Office
Published
8 November 2021
Last updated
10 February 2022 — See all updates

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Biometrics self-enrolment feasibility trials: privacy information notice

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When foreign nationals want to visit or migrate to the UK, some of them are required to provide face and fingerprint biometrics ahead of travel, to enable identity and security checks. British citizens already do this when travelling to some other countries, such as the US.

To maximise convenience and security, the Home Office will increasingly look at where remote self-enrolment of face and fingerprint biometrics can be used by foreign nationals applying to come to the UK. For example, this could include using a smartphone to self-enrol biometrics from home. To understand whether this is possible, the Home Office need to test the performance and usability of these emerging biometric technologies. These feasibility trials are one of the early stages of doing this.

This page provides details of the privacy information notice (PIN) accompanying the consent form for trial participants.

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Published 8 November 2021
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