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Indian district rolls out live facial recognition to fight crime wave
A district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is rolling out a crime-fighting search engine powered by live facial recognition called the Geospatial Data Intelligence Platform (GDIP). The police in...
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Galaxy phone users in India now have access to digital IDs via Samsung Wallet
It is now possible for users of Samsung Galaxy smartphones to access their Aadhaar digital ID, PAN cards and other digital credentials on their devices using the Samsung Wallet, reports The Times of...
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Papua New Guinea to tap India’s digital public infrastructure experience
India will share the experience of its digital public infrastructure (DPI) known as “India Stack” with Papua New Guinea to facilitate identity verification, data sharing and digital payments after the...
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NXP Semiconductors explores chip-based biometric authentication with India’s...
In an interview with Times of India, Hitesh Garg, VP and country manager of NXP Semiconductors India, disclosed that NXP is currently engaged in preliminary discussions with the Indian government...
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India deploys fingerprint liveness detection to combat Aadhaar payment fraud
India's finance minister says custom-coded anti-spoofing software has been deployed, designed to prevent biometric fraud on the Aadhaar-enabled payment system. AI code was created by the Unique...
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India supports AfDB’s digital financial inclusion drive in Africa with $2M
The government of India had said it will donate $2 million to support digital financial inclusion projects in Africa undertaken by the African Development Bank (AfDB’s) Africa Digital Financial...
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India advances Sri Lanka digital ID project $5.4M
A cheque of 450 million Indian rupees (approximately US$5.4 million) has been handed to Sri Lanka’s government as part payment for the implementation of the country’s digital ID project dubbed SL-UDI....
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India’s data protection bill passes lower house of Parliament, raises privacy...
India's Digital Personal Data Protection Bill of 2023 passed in the lower house of Parliament and will now face the higher house before it becomes law, according to The Indian Express. The bill as...
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The India Stack infrastructure roadshow stops in Trinidad and Tobago
India is hoping to be a global leader in digital public infrastructure and identity software, and it is pitching its so-called India Stack of digital products to countries. One of its targets is...
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Stakeholders allege favoritism in bidding process for Sri Lanka digital ID...
Some Sri Lankan stakeholders, including lawmakers, have questioned decisions around the tender process for the country’s upcoming biometric digital ID project, with claims that the process is being...
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Indian central bank to pilot open banking platform using Aadhaar KYC
India’s central bank is planning a pilot program for a digital platform intended to extend the country’s digital public infrastructure and digital identity system to loans for easier credit...
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India ups investment in digital public infrastructure, plans DigiLocker...
The Digital India program that includes the national digital identity, Aadhaar, as well as public sector systems for biometric authentication and online government services, is receiving a funding...
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India imposes new ID verification requirement for sellers of SIM cards
India government officials announced Thursday that new dealers of SIM cards are now subject to biometric ID verification. This is the latest campaign to curb rampant fraud in India that involves SIM...
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Worldcoin biometrics collection faces more scrutiny in Kenya, skepticism in...
Worldcoin, the project that wants to scan your iris biometrics in exchange for some of its cryptocurrency, continues to attract regulators in Kenya and skepticism in countries like India, which has...
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Data privacy concerns as Sri Lanka digital ID project awarded to Indian company
Authorities in Sri Lanka are trying to convince citizens that awarding the national digital ID contract to an Indian company would not in any way compromise the security of the biographic and...
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India in talks to share UPI digital payment experience with three more...
India is reported to be in negotiations with Kenya, Mozambique and Namibia to help the African nations develop digital payment systems similar to its Universal Payments Interface (UPI) platform....
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UNDP and India team up for digital public infrastructure guidance to spur SDG...
The Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations remain a long way from being realized, more than half-way to the 2030 goal. To speed up the progress, the government of India and the UN...
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India embraces facial recognition for smart city, railways
NEC Corporation India has launched the latest smart city project in Tirupati, India, on behalf of Tirupati Smart City Corporation Limited, in one of two projects expanding the use of facial...
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The future of facial recognition technology in India: Opportunities and...
The future of facial recognition technology in India: Opportunities and challenges Online September 13, 2023 at 3:00 PM IST Join RecFaces team as we explore the opportunities and challenges that lie...
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India’s Gujarat State to assign family digital ID numbers for social service...
Authorities in the Indian state of Gujarat are working on a plan to issue digital ID cards with unique numbers to all families as part of efforts to enable them to easily access government services....
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