On January 17, 2017, the Minister of the Interior published an audit report (source document in French) relating to the system security of the Secured Electronic Documents file ("TES"). Used by both the French National Cybersecurity Agency and the direction interministérielle du numérique et du système d'information et de communication de l'État (France's interministerial directorate on digital, information systems, and communication, or DINSIC), TES processes personal data related to identity cards and passports, including scanned fingerprints and scanned copies of signatures. Although the audit report notes that TES's security systems were adequate, it makes 11 improvement recommendations to ensure that the biometric identification purposes are properly implemented.
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