The creation of remote authentication and identification mechanisms is aimed, according to the government's plan, at ensuring security by countering the financing of terrorism and the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime. This represents one side of the scale. On the other, we are witnessing the creation of opportunities for violation of our privacy, the danger of incomplete protection of the biometric data of bank customers... The obligation imposed on banks to transmit client biometric data to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSS may open up many opportunities for the abuse of such data.