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India using face biometrics to fight fraud in voting and mobile registration
Indian officials across India are increasingly using facial recognition to identify fraud in elections and SIM card registrations. The State Election Commission (SEC), for example, deployed self-named...
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US, Kyrgyzstan, India hunt criminals with facial recognition watchlists
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has reportedly used facial recognition and fingerprint biometric data to locate an alleged Bosnian war criminal who was living under an assumed name. The...
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Indonesia wants to share lessons on digital public infrastructure as India...
Digital public infrastructure (DPI) has been hailed as a way for governments to meet their development goals, catalyze innovation and unlock market bottlenecks. But as countries such as Indonesia and...
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India expands partnership on digital public infrastructure experience-sharing...
India recently concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with four countries to share its digital stack experience with them. The countries include Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Sierra Leone and...
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Idemia grabs a piece of Digi Yatra airport biometrics rollout
Idemia has won a contract with GMR Group, which operates airports in Delhi, Hyderabad and Goa, to provide facial recognition for GMR’s implementation of Digi Yatra. Digi Yatra is a program in which...
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India’s Account Aggregator DPI could promote equitable financial access:...
India's micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) face a credit gap of between $250 billion and $300 billion. The World Bank says in a blog post that even before the pandemic, 92 percent of small...
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Digital ID enrollment efforts scale up in Kuwait, Nigeria
Nigeria’s National Identity Management Authority (NIMC) says it is intensifying efforts to get many more citizens and legal residents in the country enroll their biometrics for the National...
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UIDAI refuses disclosure on liveness project as Indian police crack down on...
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has declined to answer inquiries regarding its recent efforts to combat Aadhaar-based frauds, claiming confidentiality. The news comes from a...
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Deadline looms to link India’s digital identity and tax accounts
Just days ahead of the June 30th deadline for individuals and businesses to link their PAN with Aadhaar digital identities, India's Income Tax Department released a statement on Twitter outlining how...
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Next announces new fingerprint sensor contract, partnership, volume order...
A large fingerprint biometrics supply contract for Next Biometrics has grown into a five-year commercial agreement with an Indian OEM partner. The deal is now worth 65 million Norwegian kroner...
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India doubles down on biometrics to prevent tax fraud, Aadhaar authentication...
India’s Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) is set to implement biometric authentication to help curb “rampant” Goods and Services Tax (GST) fraud. India’s GST is broadly comparable to...
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India says chip passports coming ‘soon’ as authorities discover fakes through...
Indians will soon be able to obtain their long-awaited e-passports, equipped with biometric chips compliant with the latest ICAO standards. After two years of delays, the digital passport project...
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EU, India and US make louder noises about legislating privacy protection
On the assumption that all (or maybe a lot) of change can be good, things are good for data protection in key parts of the world. There are regulatory updates from the European Union, India and the...
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Biometric data collection avoided in Ukraine aid delivery over human rights...
From Ukraine to the Indian states of Manipur and Mizoram, the collection of biometric data for those seeking asylum raises privacy red flags. Agencies in Ukraine are not collecting biometrics for aid...
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Prisons from Hong Kong to Chennai to Georgia are setting up biometric...
Hong Kong's Correctional Services Department this week agreed with Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks to build a framework for exploring "market-proven" projects to address jail needs. According...
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Aadhaar biometrics verification for GST registration pilot in India to expand
Applicants registering for Goods and Service Tax (GST) numbers in the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry will be asked to perform a risk-based biometric-based Aadhaar authentication in a pilot...
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Procurement begins for Sri Lanka’s national digital ID
The procurement process for Sri Lanka’s national digital identity project has begun in partnership with the Indian government. Only Indian suppliers are able to bid on the project, which will include...
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India presses for legal framework to guide adoption of digital public...
India’s government emissary (Sherpa) to the G20 Amitabh Kant has underscored the need for a clearer definition of digital public infrastructure (DPI) and a legal framework to guide its deployment....
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UK updates penalties for breaking biometrics rules for digital visas
Governments continue to pursue secure systems for biometric immigration control, but human opportunism remains a problem. This week the UK published an update to its “code of practice about sanctions...
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India women use digital IDs to apply for basic income program
The chief minister of India's Tamil Nadu state has opened a camp in the Dharmapuri district to help 10 million eligible women with digital IDs to apply for monthly universal basic income of Rs 1,000...
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