Asylum Act
(AsylA)

¹ The com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies may pro­cess bio­met­ric data for the pur­pose of es­tab­lish­ing the iden­tity of asylum seekers and per­sons in need of pro­tec­tion.

^1bis SEM may del­eg­ate the pro­cessing of bio­met­ric data to third parties. It shall veri­fy the com­pli­ance by the third parties with the reg­u­la­tions on data pro­tec­tion and in­form­a­tion se­cur­ity.²⁹⁹

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine what bio­met­ric data is col­lec­ted and reg­u­late ac­cess to the data.