Singapore legislation
Regulation 25
Regulation 25
Storage of personal identifiers
Subregulation 1
Subject to paragraph (2), all personal identifiers collected under any of the provisions of the Act and these Regulations, together with all identifying information related to the personal identifiers, may be stored in any form that the Controller considers appropriate.
Subregulation 2
The storage of all personal identifiers collected under any of the provisions of the Act and these Regulations, together with all identifying information related to the personal identifiers must enable the following methods to confirm the validity of evidence of an applicant for a Singapore passport or Singapore travel document, or a person to whom a Singapore passport or Singapore travel document has been issued:
matching a digitised version of the photograph provided by the applicant with any previous application from the applicant, and with any other digitised photographs of the applicant held by the Controller; or
embedding a contactless chip into the Singapore passport or Singapore travel document in a manner that the Controller considers is consistent with international standards and recommended practices and procedures for travel documents adopted in accordance with the Convention on International Civil Aviation.