If proposals in the French Senate come to fruition, the country could become one of the first in the world to make sweeping laws against the use of biometric technology, excepting certain stringent security-based cases, Planet Biometrics reports.

The proposals were originally tabled in the Senate in February, but they have since undergone various amendment. The Bill now relates to ensuring biometric data is only used when needed for the strict purposes of security (understood as the safety of persons and property, and the protection of information whose disclosure, misappropriation or destruction would cause serious and irreversible harm), the article says.