Legal regulation of the turnover of biometric data of citizens in the European union

Ensuring the security of a person and society is one of the priority and important areas of activity of any legal state. Measures aimed at countering crime and combating offenses in the information sphere are impossible without interaction and cooperation between states, since such violations are of a cross-border nature. The article examines the activities of theEuropean law in terms of creating a biometric database - Common Identity Repository (CIR)) and a project related to limiting the use of artificial intelligence in areas that pose a threat to the protection of personal, biometric data of citizens of the European Union. It is concluded that the processing of biometric data is associated with high risks of violations of the rights of individuals, and work with this kind of information should meet a certain goal, have restrictions on the volume of processed data and on the duration of their storage for solving specific tasks.