Russian bill calls for biometric registration of all citizens

November 21, 2014 - | BiometricUpdate

MPs from populist Russian nationalist party LDPR have drafted and will soon submit a new bill calling for the mandatory fingerprinting and DNA profiling of all Russian citizens in an effort to increase security measures, according to a report by RT.

Roman Khudyakov, the bill's main sponsor, previously championed mandatory fingerprinting for the entire urban population of Russia, including visitors and foreigners.

According to the bill, the biometric information would be stored in a central government database and each citizen would be issued a "bio-card" that contained all their details.

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