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Biometric authentication tender launched for food benefits program in Indian...
A tender process is underway to select a biometric solution provider for a supplementary food distribution program dubbed “poshahar” in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Newsroom Modisha reports....
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Idemia biometrics to bolster India’s growing offline payments market
India is now the world’s most populous nation, but according to executives at Idemia, mobile phone penetration stands at 46 percent. That means more than half the population does not have access to an...
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Next Biometrics and Fingerprint Cards secure deals in India
Fingerprint sensor technology maker Next Biometrics has announced that its partner Access Computech Pvt. Ltd. (ACPL) has received the L1 Aadhaar certification, sealing a US$2.2 million deal with the...
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UIDAI delays India’s biometrics program for fighting GST fraud by blocking...
Biometric authentication measures meant to combat tax fraud committed through India’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) registration process are on hold, with government officials pointing to restrictions...
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Indian govt fires back at Moody’s ‘sweeping assertions’ about Aadhaar biometrics
Moody’s has faced a strong retort from the Indian government after the American credit ratings, research and data organization sharply criticized the Aadhaar biometric digital ID system in a recent...
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Mumbai railways installing 1000s of facial recognition cameras
Indian Railways is planning to install thousands of CCTV cameras equipped with facial recognition across greater Mumbai in an effort to boost security. The project is worth 890 million rupees (US$10.6...
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Sri Lanka to run new digital ID tender after Madras disqualified
After much controversy, the multi-million dollar tender for Sri Lanka’s digital identity project will be refloated. The news comes after the country’s government procurement agency disqualified the...
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India pushes liveness detection to biometric devices to cut payments fraud
The growing wave of fraud perpetrated against the Aadhaar-enabled Payments System (AePS), the widely-used last mile payments platform in India, has prompted responses from government authorities as...
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Zwipe to contribute to EMVCo’s Biometric on Card initiative
Zwipe has joined EMVCo, the global body for technical standards supporting payment card interoperability and acceptance, as a subscriber to work on the organization’s “Biometric on Card” project....
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Digi Yatra biometrics from Mantra Softech reach production launch at Cochin...
Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) recently unveiled new and modern infrastructure among which is the Digi Yatra face biometrics-based system for paperless and contactless passenger...
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India mandates use of Aadhaar to streamline disability card issuance
The government of India has announced that the Aadhaar biometric digital ID can now be used as proof of ID by applicants seeking to obtain the Unique Disability ID (UDID). The new policy is expected...
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Indian SSI system declared a digital public good, country signs DPI deal with...
Credebl has been added to the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA)’s registry as India partners with the United Arab Emirates to aid in the implementation of a digital payment system. Credebl’s open...
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India approves a trifecta of MoUs to help establish, build on digital ID
India is reaching out on digital transformation, announcing the signing of Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with two nations to cooperate and share on the integration of ID-facing digital technologies...
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State government fixes bug exposing Aadhaar biometric records
Fingerprint biometrics submitted to India’s national ID system, Aadhaar, have been exposed by the West Bengal state government website, TechCrunch reports. Security researcher Sourajeet Majumder found...
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AWS and Indian government unveil plan for digital health IDs
A repurposed COVID-19 portal could serve as a single, comprehensive digital health ID for health records, with a proposal from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and India’s central government, reports...
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Indian govt’s insistence that Aadhaar is secure rings hollow in wake of breaches
India is bleeding biometric information, with new data breaches giving credence to a recent report by the credit rating agency Moody’s warning that Aadhaar’s centralized biometric digital ID system...
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Next Biometrics attributes contract wins in India to L1 transition, human...
The Aadhaar digital ID program has made India an area of particular focus for Next Biometrics, along with many other biometric hardware and software developers. The company delves into the importance...
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How India can adhere to the Digital Personal Data Protection Act
In India, stakeholders are confused on how the recently established Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act will apply to parental consent and age verification requirements. A possible solution is...
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New Indian school ID adds another credential on top of Aadhaar
India’s One Nation, One ID program appears to have been misnamed, with the controversial announcement of a plan to assign a unique digital ID number to every school student in the country for the...
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Facial recognition tool nets over 6M SIM card fraudsters in India in 6 months
Facial recognition tool ASTR, developed by the Center for the Development of Telematics (C-DoT) of India’s Department of Telecommunications, has been vital in the identification and disconnection of...
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