SOME ASPECTS OF NON-ILLEGAL CONCEALMENT OF BIOMETRIC PERSONAL DATA BY PERSONS ESCAPED FROM PRISONS OR CUSTODY
The article analyzes the «biometric data» content in the legal sphere at the federal legislation level and explanatory documents. The main types of biometric personal data are determined, including DNA data. The ways of unjustifiable change of unique human data by which law enforcement officers can identify prisoner’ identity are being studied with the purpose of trying to avoid responsibility by a person who escapes from places of detention or from custody: changing a fingerprint with a scar or deformation, masking dactyloscopic data by modifying the structure of the epithelium, changing the data of the trabecular eye retina, correcting cranial-facies data, skeletal parameters, lipomodeling, lipofilling, correction of phonoscopic data. It is stated that the analysis of nuclear DNA as a unique and unchangeable parameter for each individual is the most accurate way of biometric identification of a criminal who escaped from places of deprivation of liberty. The results can be used in criminalistics when conducting identification of the persons involved in a criminal case.