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Employees saying no to biometric timekeepers
Consumers might be the biggest class of people suffering the loss of control of their biometric data to governments and businesses, but employees are perhaps the most visible group opposing it. This...
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Surveillance states: life in the facial recognition spotlight in China, Iran...
Police activity following November’s anti COVID-19 policy protests in China suggest they are using new surveillance techniques. Concerns are increasing in Iran over the likelihood of authorities...
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Pushback against SIM registration in Philippines as India adds facial...
As SIM-identity registration continues worldwide, privacy and fraud risks come to the fore. Indians are subject to an unclear privacy process via a system that runs facial recognition against the SIM...
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Deal between Philippines and Singapore could herald more digital ID...
A memorandum of understanding signed by the governments of the Philippines and Singapore that will allow each nation’s digital ID to be recognized in the other’s jurisdiction has been revealed by a...
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Indian police want to use biometrics to catch overstays, PM calls for tech...
India’s Home Minister Amit Shah called for the establishment of additional detention centers and the use of biometrics to identify and deport foreigners who overstay in the country by misusing tourist...
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UIDAI calls for clarity, ‘informed consent’ prior to Aadhaar biometrics...
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has unveiled new guidelines for requesting entities (REs) to obtain resident consent on paper or electronically before carrying out Aadhaar...
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India expecting gov stack, UPI payments to go global as 7 countries to sign up
Seven countries are expected to sign up with Indian authorities to begin using the India Stack suite of digital public goods, reports The Economic Times, informed by the minister of state for...
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Expanding digital ID, credit system positions Mastercard as commodity broker...
Mastercard is expanding its Community Pass scheme to India where it plans to enroll agricultural workers with digital ID via its Farm Pass product. The platform will offer them credit and allow a...
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New Asian partnerships: Next Biometrics expands in China, Accops in India
Next Biometrics has announced a new strategic collaboration with Guangzhou-based technology partner Wiser to bring its solutions to China. According to a company announcement, Wiser will create a...
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India travel system boasts 99% accurate facial authentication
An Indian startup supplying facial recognition for a new airport-clearance service says its algorithm is right 99 percent of the time. The company, Dataevolve, wrote the code for Digi Yatra, which is...
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Sumsub says digital ID can speed up onboarding in emerging markets
The use of digital ID technologies, alongside government databases, can substantially speed up the identity verification process in emerging countries. This claim comes from London-based identity...
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India approves Alcatraz AI access control biometrics for entry into growing...
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has approved Alcatraz AI’s Rock system for biometric access to buildings. The Rock uses facial authentication to control access and tailgating detection to improve...
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India plans expansion of DigiLocker to organizations for digital document, ID...
India is working to expand the DigiLocker application to businesses and other organizations to allow them to manage digital documents and perform identity authentication and verification using the...
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Indian police nab fraudsters who cloned fingerprints to spoof Aadhaar
Police in the Indian city of Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh State have busted a gang of fraudsters which had been stealing money from victims’ bank accounts using cloned fingerprints. The arrest followed...
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India gets help from UNDP to convince nations about digital public...
India holds the presidency of the G20 this year, and officials say they will use the time to push a digital transformation agenda including the creation of digital public infrastructures globally....
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Indian officials use facial recognition to identify thousands of fraudulent...
Almost 500,000 irregularly-registered SIM cards have been blocked in the Mewat region of India’s Haryana state since January 2022, many of them identified through an artificial intelligence-powered...
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Indian Railway Police Force Chief reports 96% accuracy in facial recognition...
The Director-General of the Railway Police Force (RPF), Sanjay Chander, has informed The Hindu in an interview that the Indian Railways are looking to install facial recognition systems in 200 railway...
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Activists decry Bangalore plan for facial recognition video surveillance
The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), an Indian civil society group working to protect internet liberties, is calling for an end to plans by officials in Bengaluru (Bangalore) to expand its safe city...
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Thales opens design center in India to boost pursuit of local market
Multinational diversified electronics firm Thales has opened its first design center in India. The company says the center will develop new products and services while promoting partnerships with...
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Social protection lessons: Indian interoperability, opportunities for private...
India sees an interoperable future for its economy and African countries could benefit from separating population registers and social protection registers and finding new levers to entice people to...
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