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Expanded scope of biometrics collection, storage for Indian police enters...
India’s new Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill 2022 which gives police officers the power to collect biometric information of convicts and even criminal suspects, has passed into law and is now...
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Move a little to your left. Turn your head. Perfect! Recreating crimes with...
What happens if facial recognition surveillance cameras only capture a crime suspect from a too-oblique angle to make a confident identification? In India, the police can have the subject recreate the...
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Biometric passenger checks through Digi Yatra app now available at Delhi,...
Passengers flying from Terminal 3 of the Delhi International Airport in India will henceforth go through passenger check processes without showing any paper-based documentation. This is also the case...
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Indian police using 80 percent facial recognition confidence threshold
Eighty percent is a respectable test grade for a subject that a student is unfamiliar with, but may not be for a police facial recognition system being used to investigate crimes. That is the...
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India’s high court requests UIDAI to use Aadhaar biometrics to ID accident...
India’s High Court (HC) is asking the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) as well as the Delhi city government to help with the identification of victims of road accidents using the...
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Biometrics work too well with face masks for criminals to hide; or for anonymity
Since the beginning of the pandemic, an increasing number of face biometrics developers have stepped up their efforts to improve the recognition rates of individuals wearing masks. It was a necessity...
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Digi Yatra seeks to assure Indian air travelers their biometric data is safe
The biometric and biographic data collected from Indian air passengers by the Digi Yatra App is stored locally, and not at risk of a mass data breach, the Digi Yatra Foundation has declared. A public...
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Two ways to not protect biometric data demonstrated by world’s most populous...
Several civil society groups in India are highly concerned about the spread of facial recognition and other surveillance technologies in the country, particularly in the context of a legal and...
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Scammers alter fingerprint biometrics in India with limited success
Several individuals in India have recently been involved in events that saw the alteration or theft of fingerprint biometrics. Specifically, a criminal duo in Telangana was apprehended by police for...
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Aadhaar critic joins ID16.9 podcast to discuss inclusion shortfalls
Allegations that India’s digital ID Aadhaar has entrenched, rather than alleviated exclusion from social services and government benefits, have dogged the world’s largest identification program from...
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Facial recognition surveillance systems sprouting rapidly across India’s...
A hefty analysis of government intentions regarding biometric surveillance in India indicates that the obsession for in-country intelligence is wafting over the Himalayas from Xinjiang, China. In...
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Precision Biometric, Crunchfish to pilot offline retail payments in...
Swedish gesture recognition and digital payments solution provider Crunchfish and one of India’s largest private banks, HDFC Bank, have been given the green light from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)...
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ID4Africa LiveCast Season 5 Premiere
ID4Africa LiveCast Season 5 Premiere Online September 28, 2022 Don't miss this one-of-a-kind ID4Africa LiveCast Season 5 Premiere Episode featuring several heavyweights in identity and some of the...
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Aadhaar biometrics considered for expansion toward non-banking financial firms
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is considering onboarding several nonbank financial companies (NBFCs) to authenticate users online via Aadhaar biometrics. The news, reported by...
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India claims to effectively meet SDG16.9 of legal ID for all, expands...
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the agency that implements the country’s Aadhaar identity system, claims to have reached almost one hundred percent coverage of the population,...
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Indian police deploy portable fingerprint biometric scanners and app to ID...
Police in Karnataka, India, have deployed portable scanners and a new app connected to the force’s automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS) to check the criminal records of suspected...
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Digitalization moves forward in India with Aadhaar biometrics for more gov...
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) in India has issued a new notification that allows citizens to access several transport-related services online with their Aadhaar digital ID, Mint...
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India turns to fingerprint biometric liveness to stem spoof attacks on...
A new liveness detection feature for fingerprint authentications as part of the Aadhaar-enabled payment system to prevent people from successfully carrying out biometric spoof attacks as a method of...
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PayByFace expansion brings retail biometrics to South Africa, India, UAE, US
Romanian biometric firm PayByFace has deployed its face recognition-powered payment solutions in South Africa, India, UAE, and the U.S. The company’s CEO Mihai Draghici made the announcement in a...
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India, Nigeria, Pakistan discuss sustainable financing for digital ID schemes...
Designing identity authorities based on business models which can generate funds for the proper functioning and sustainability of their systems was the focus in Part 2 of ID4Africa’s 34th Livecast...
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