In respect of both of them, we can have either retrospective biometric analysis or identification, or live biometric analysis or identification. As I said, biometric identification is defined in this Bill as a type of biometric processing that is not covered by biometric analysis. The real difference between biometric analysis and biometric identification is that biometric identification requires the assistance of a database of images.
Biometric analysis has to be biometric analysis of biometric data against biometric data. It separates itself from identifications because the AI Act provides that biometric identification is "comparison of ... biometric data with the biometric data". The Minister is comparing biometric information with biometric information in another database and that is biometric identification.
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Tellers: Tá, Senators Nessa Cosgrove and Lynn Ruane; Níl, Senators Cathal Byrne and Paul Daly.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Amendment put: | Lost | 16–28 |
| Question put: | Lost | 15–28 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 12–29 |
| Question put: | Carried | 29–12 |
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