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Fingerprint biometrics most common among 1.8 billion monthly Aadhaar...
Over 1.75 billion authentication transactions occurred in October using India's Aadhaar digital identity program, bringing the total to date to 84.26 billion. Fingerprint biometrics was the most...
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Pensioners go biometric in India, Philippines to keep receiving payments
There is no retiring from technology for pensioners in India and the Philippines. India is pushing Aadhaar-based faced authentication for public pension continuity, while public sector pensioners in...
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Idex moves closer to biometric payment card issuance on 3 continents in 2023
Accomplish Financial, which provides payment solutions to fintechs and banks in the UK, Europe and North America, has been revealed as the UK-based issuer recently selecting Idex Biometrics to make...
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Inching closer to the day when a face is all that is needed at world airports
Biometric verification has taken another small step forward in the United States, with the addition of optional cruise-ship debarkation checks at the Port of San Diego. At the same time, India is...
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Lessons from Aadhaar for digital ID architecture, financing shared by...
Nandan Nilekani, founding chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, and prominent Aadhaar architect, expounded on the lessons that can be drawn from the world’s largest digital ID...
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Sri Lanka to begin procuring digital ID equipment from India with Indian money
The Indo-Sri Lanka Joint Project Monitoring Committee (JPMC) has launched the procurement process for the Sri Lanka Unique Digital Identity Project (SL-UDI) after government ministers met with the...
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Indian police use of facial recognition in Chennai may violate privacy:...
The use of face biometric technologies by police forces to identify people on the streets of the Indian city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, may clash with a Supreme Court judgment on privacy, according to...
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Identity in digital payment schemes: city, state, nation or – for India – the...
Digital identity and broader digital ecosystems and government stacks are emerging to serve various functions at the local and national level. The COVID-19 pandemic proved an accelerator as...
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Capulus Technologies selected for accelerator as biometric app catches murder...
Smart policing and biometrics provider Capulus Technologies, based in India’s Karnataka State, has been selected as part of the third cohort for the Telangana AI Mission (T-AIM) startup accelerator,...
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Idemia biometrics roll out at airports in Abu Dhabi, Singapore and California
Next50 has begun implementing its facial recognition system at Abu Dhabi International Airport, with biometric solutions from Idemia and SITA deployed at some self-service bag drop points, immigration...
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Stalking-horse report on facial recognition in Indian airports draws arrows
A report out of India about responsible AI has been quickly criticized for being incomplete. The 74-page report in question, Responsible AI for All by the Indian government think tank NITI Aayog, is...
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Tamil Nadu state goes all out with Aadhaar requirement for government welfare
The Indian state of Tamil Nadu will now require an Aadhaar number to supply any government benefits services according to a report by The Hindu. The tightening grip of Aadhaar requirements across the...
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Biometrics among pandemic data authorities are using to ramp up surveillance,...
Technology created to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, including facial recognition and other biometric scans, has been adopted by law enforcement around the world as a way to expand surveillance and...
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Accops, India govt R&D develop continuous biometric facial authentication for...
Remote access products and solutions provider Accops has partnered with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), an R&D organization under India’s Ministry of Electronics &...
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India keeps lid on amount of data collected for voting
Voters in India wanting biometric data privacy are getting some cover. Government officials have issued statements addressing concerns of some people that they have to give up data or be...
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Global lessons from digitally identifying the poor for health in Cambodia,...
Digital technologies help in the development of health schemes, according to the findings of a new publication from the WHO. The paper offers concise summaries of three countries and concludes with a...
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Tamil Nadu engages private firm to collect biometrics from homeless without...
The personal data and biometrics of thousands of desperately poor people in India’s Tamil Nadu state, some waiting 20 years for housing, are being kept on the “back-office servers” of a private...
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India offers digital infrastructure to the world, launches innovation showcases
India is using its Presidency of the G-20 to invite international adoption of its ‘India Stack,’ which includes the world’s largest digital ID program. A pair of global programs are also being...
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Biometric voter ID projects advance in Liberia and Nigeria, urged in Guyana
Liberia’s National Elections Commission (NEC) says pen has finally been put to paper on a contract for the supply of biometric voter registration equipment ahead of the country’s general election...
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PDF version of India’s digital voter ID has low availability, lower uptake
A total of 98 million Indian voters are eligible to download the legal PDF version of their digital voter ID dubbed the electronic Electoral Photo ID Card (E-EPIC). Just 6.8 percent of this number has...
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