“This year we fully launched the Unified Biometric System; now citizens’ biometrics can only be stored in it. Today, it reliably protects more than 55 million biometric impressions,” TASS quotes him.

According to him, more than 80 banks provide remote biometrics services.

Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko spoke about the advantages of using biometrics.

MTS became the first mobile operator in Russia with state accreditation for working with biometric data.