Biometric

Biometrics, in terms of HRMS and attendance management systems, is using a person’s physical or behavioural character traits for identification and authentication purposes, like using their fingerprints, facial features or scans of their irises to identify them as part of a system. Biometric systems in HRMS and attendance management provide reliable and accurate employee tracking while minimising the chances of time fraud occurring.

Highlights of Attendance and HR Technologies

• Provides systems for correctly identifying employees.
• Allows for preventing buddy punching and attendance fraud.
• Provides improved accuracy of attendance and payroll data.
• Works with many HRMS and Payroll software systems to integrate.
• Can be used for actual real-time tracking of the workforce.

Usage of Biometric Data in India (Legal Compliance)

The use of biometric data in India must be done in compliance with the following:

• The Information Technology Act of 2000.
• The Right to Privacy as outlined in Indian Law.
• When collecting biometric data, explicit consent of the individual must be obtained.
• Organisations must have their own Company Data Security and Privacy Policy.

Biometric Data needs to be stored securely and can only be used for the purpose for which it was authorised.