India regulator halts facial biometrics requirements for SIM registration...
India’s Department of Telecom (DoT) has decided that facial authentication will not be implemented as a modality for Aadhaar e-KYC...
View ArticleIndian airports to deploy biometric card readers for employee access control
India’s Bureau for Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) will launch a biometric pass system to keep track of airline crew members,...
View ArticleSupreme Court upholds Aadhaar but strikes down required use by private sector
Aadhaar has survived its Supreme Court challenge mostly intact, with a five-judge panel ruling that it is constitutionally valid and...
View ArticleHyderabad university seeks support to develop local biometric tech for Aadhaar
With a lack of Indian technology suppliers for the Aadhaar authentication ecosystem, the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in...
View ArticleIndian telecoms may return to paper documents for customer authentication
In the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that Aadhaar cannot be made mandatory to access service provided by a...
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Digital Payments South Asia The Lalit Mumbai Hotel Mumbai, India November 13-14, 2018 On November 13-14, 2018, APSCA India will...
View ArticleBanks continue to accept Aadhaar as they await regulator’s interpretation of...
Banks in India have begun notifying customers that using Aadhaar and one-time passwords (OTP) to meet know your customer (KYC)...
View ArticleIndian government responds to Supreme Court ruling with Aadhaar rule...
India’s government has responded to the Supreme Court ruling which put significant new limits on the world’s largest biometrics program....
View ArticleBiometric paperless flight boarding to launch in India in six months
India’s government has announced its policy for biometric processing at the country’s airports, with the “Digi Yatra” initiative expected to...
View ArticleFinancial firms and telecoms in India wrestle with new Aadhaar authentication...
Fintech and mutual fund companies cannot authenticate customers with their Aadhaar account, banks would like to continue doing so, and...
View ArticleAratek to feature FBI certified fingerprint scanners at Smart Cards Expo
Biometric technologies and eID management firm ARATEK is set to showcase its latest biometric products and solutions at the 2018...
View ArticleIndian government plans biometric kiosk deployment for Digi Yatra travel scheme
An official with the Airports Authority of India (AAI) says that the agency is planning to deploy kiosks at city...
View ArticleGemalto publicly apologizes for alleging massive Aadhaar data breach in report
Gemalto has retracted the claim in its Breach Level Index (BLI) that roughly 1.2 billion Aadhaar records have been compromised...
View ArticleAadhaar biometric authentication fine for government benefits but not for...
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has written to commercial banks and the Reserve Bank of India to clarify...
View ArticleNEXT Biometrics strikes deal to provide fingerprint sensors for POS devices...
NEXT Biometrics has received an order for fingerprint sensor modules from China-based point-of-sale (POS) maker Telpo (Telepower Communication Co. Ltd.)...
View ArticleDelhi High Court backs OTP over biometrics for SIM registrations due to...
Delhi’s High Court has backed suggestions from a pair of amicus curiae briefs that OTP authentication replace the use of...
View ArticleVirtual ID deadline extended again as UIDAI and Indian banks work to improve...
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has begun carrying out a directive from the Supreme Court, delivered as part...
View ArticleCCTV network with facial recognition coming to Indian rail system
Eight major companies have placed bids on a contract tendered by Indian Railways’ telecom arm RailTel to supply, install, test,...
View ArticleTender process begins for biometric boarding at four Indian airports
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has issued the first requests for proposals (RFPs) for four airports to deploy the...
View ArticleIndian government continues to work out Aadhaar biometric and KYC rules
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) says that while Aadhaar account holders can block their biometrics, they cannot exit...
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