Financial institutions fined nearly $11B worldwide for KYC, regulatory...
Financial institutions worldwide were fined US$10.6 billion for regulatory non-compliance including anti-money laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) in... The post Financial institutions fined...
View ArticleIndia reportedly moving toward decentralized digital ID platform
India officials reportedly want to use a blockchain to secure the multiple digital IDs that many citizens must hold. According... The post India reportedly moving toward decentralized digital ID...
View ArticleHow India can operationalize its data protection regulation
Privacy and data protection experts from Germany, Ghana and the Philippines have suggested ways through which India’s Data Protection Authority... The post How India can operationalize its data...
View ArticleAccess Now report holds up poster child Aadhaar as ‘Big ID’ bugbear
A legal vacuum and vulnerable population allowed the creation of the world’s largest biometric digital ID project and built a... The post Access Now report holds up poster child Aadhaar as ‘Big ID’...
View ArticleHoneywell to implement facial recognition in Bengaluru Safe City project
Honeywell Automation, a subsidiary of Honeywell India, has won a contract worth Rs 4.96 billion (about US$66 million) to execute... The post Honeywell to implement facial recognition in Bengaluru Safe...
View ArticleIndia tests mobile voting, arranges Aadhaar hackathon – both spell controversy
India is testing biometric, blockchain-based mobile phone voting for the first time in the hope of increasing turnout and reducing... The post India tests mobile voting, arranges Aadhaar hackathon –...
View ArticlePlurilock expands in India through CloudCodes assets acquisition
Plurilock has recently completed the acquisition of assets from Indian cloud access security broker CloudCodes Software, granting CloudCodes’ existing customers... The post Plurilock expands in India...
View ArticleIndian state deploys biometric wearable to track government workers in real time
As if inviting people to revolt against biometric devices in the workplace, an Indian state reportedly will fit smart watches... The post Indian state deploys biometric wearable to track government...
View ArticleFacial recognition in India: new study approved, regulations remain difficult
NITI Aayog, the National Institution for Transforming India, has recently approved a new study into the implementation of facial recognition... The post Facial recognition in India: new study approved,...
View ArticleIndia’s Aadhaar hackathon pulls in 5,000 innovators
The Aadhaar Hackathon 2021 has attracted more than 5,000 innovators across over 3,000 team registrations, reports the India Education Diary, to... The post India’s Aadhaar hackathon pulls in 5,000...
View ArticleIndia resumes biometric attendance tracking for government employees next week
India’s central government has announced that the use of biometric devices to register work presence of all levels of employees... The post India resumes biometric attendance tracking for government...
View ArticleSectoral digital ID cards requested in India, Ghana, advance in Ethiopia
Roadside and pushcart vendors in India have written a petition asking the Union government to issue them biometric ID cards... The post Sectoral digital ID cards requested in India, Ghana, advance in...
View ArticleNigeria state election suffers biometric voter verification failures, polls...
The governorship election in Nigeria’s Anambra state on November 6 was seriously affected by failure of the biometric voter accreditation... The post Nigeria state election suffers biometric voter...
View ArticlePenalties for Aadhaar violations set as Indian government expands applications
Penalties for hacking, sharing or using Aadhaar data without authorization can be levied by the Unique Identification Authority of India... The post Penalties for Aadhaar violations set as Indian...
View ArticleHave governments stopped trying to finesse intense face biometrics projects?
Israel and India are building facial recognition surveillance projects that seem consciously designed to aggravate specific fears held by privacy... The post Have governments stopped trying to finesse...
View ArticleNigeria to try again on data protection regulation, India seeks further...
Moves to put Data Protection Regulation (DPR) in place in Nigeria, China, and India have seen different developments this week.... The post Nigeria to try again on data protection regulation, India...
View ArticleControversial Indian health records reach 140M registrations, 96 percent...
The controversial scheme to give everyone an India a Unique Health ID (UHID) has continued apace with 140 million people... The post Controversial Indian health records reach 140M registrations, 96...
View ArticleArrests in Pakistan for fake fingerprint biometrics, NADRA breach alleged
Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested two men in Faisalabad for allegedly being involved in activating SIM cards with... The post Arrests in Pakistan for fake fingerprint...
View ArticleIndia pols, privacy advocates bicker over face biometrics legality
An argument in rural India over government use of facial recognition shows no sign of resolution. If anything, the battle... The post India pols, privacy advocates bicker over face biometrics legality...
View ArticleZKTeco, Xator expand with new facilities
ZKTeco has announced the opening of its new factory in Bangalore, India, in a move which the company says clears... The post ZKTeco, Xator expand with new facilities first appeared on Biometric Update.
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