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Privacy professionals compare how shifting data protection laws are addressed
In a world of endless biometric data, what can a data commissioner do? A virtual panel convened for the 2023 edition of PrivacyNama, a conference focused on rulemaking around India’s new Digital...
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India’s prisons to require Aadhaar authentication from inmates and visitors
In India, all prisoners and visitors will now have to go through authentication using their Aadhaar digital IDs as a part of a government initiative to strengthen inmate security and safety, according...
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Indian digital public infrastructure giant Protean launches IPO
Indian e-governance and digital public infrastructure company Protean eGov Technologies Limited launched its IPO for subscription on Monday. The IPO was fully subscribed on the first day of its...
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Indian police await gear to collect more biometrics for criminal identification
Indian police are nearly ready to expand their biometrics collection at more than a thousand build Measurement Collection Units (MCU) across the country. MCUs are offices that will be used to collect...
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Biometric authentication pilot for online tax registration begins in India
A pilot that will require Indians to submit their biometrics while registering for a new Goods and Services Tax (GST) number on a dedicated portal gets underway this week in the State of Gujarat. The...
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Nearly 3 in 4 bank customers comfortable with biometric authentication:...
Biometrics are rising in the banking sector: While a New Zealand bank is introducing behavioral biometrics to stop fraud, Indian authorities are mulling introducing facial recognition to ATMs to...
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Biometrics used in property transfers improve convenience, but must be protected
In the UAE and Pakistan, individuals can now use biometrics to perform property transfers, while India's deed database has enabled fraud. UAE and Pakistan enable property transfers using biometrics In...
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Contract to involve biometric algorithms more deeply in India test taking
The Indian state of Telangana is looking for up to 6,000 face biometrics and fingerprint scanners for to authenticate those testing for jobs. Five hundred to 6,000 handheld scanners with integrated...
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UIDAI defends Aadhaar authentication uptime as system passes 100B transactions
Server outages have struck India’s Aadhaar authentication system several times this year, preventing users from smoothly completing authentication processes for a cumulative period of 54 hours 33...
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India decides biometric consistency means transgender people can update...
In New Delhi, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) advised the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to create a policy allowing people who undergo sex reassignment surgery outside of India to get a new...
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MOSIP in final stages of biometric device certification framework development
Sanjith Sundaram, ecosystem head at the Modular Open-Source Identity Platform (MOSIP) says a lot of ground has been covered regarding collaborative efforts aimed at developing a certification...
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Live facial recognition CCTV systems coming for Indian tech hub, Thai border
Cities in India and Thailand are beefing up their biometric surveillance capabilities with new real-time facial recognition systems, continuing global trends toward algorithm-assisted security. A...
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In India and Pakistan, biometrics takes root for the growth and supply of grain
Identity verification through biometrics can play a role in food supply and distribution systems, as demonstrated by biometric initiatives in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region and the Malda district...
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Local cloud vies for role in India’s facial recognition surveillance systems
In recent years, both the private and public sectors in India have increasingly adopted facial recognition systems to transform video surveillance. The implementation of facial recognition can vary...
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RecFaces opens office in Delhi and has plans for a biometrics training facility
The facial recognition market in India is currently hotter than a ghost pepper vindaloo. Expanding Dubai firm RecFaces is set to be in the middle of it all with the opening of an office in Delhi,...
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India launches $25M fund and global repository to spur DPI implementation
India has launched a social impact fund with a $25 million commitment to support the development of digital public infrastructure in the Global South, along with a Global DPI Repository (GDPIR) to...
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Next Biometrics receives new Indian order as demand grows for Aadhaar-L1...
Next Biometrics will deliver its Aadhaar-certified FAP20 fingerprint sensor to an Indian OEM customer following a volume order worth 1.5 million Norwegian Krone (US$140,000). The order, Next says in a...
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Fingerprints all over India as states add experts and police seek Aadhaar...
The fingerprint unit of Haryana’s state crime records bureau (SRCB), which provides biometric verification and analysis for fingerprints collected at crime scenes, is seeing an overhaul, according to...
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The Gambia, Vanuatu plan life-changing transformation with digital inclusion...
Collaboration between some United Nations agencies and the governments of The Gambia and Vanuatu are opening up the way for an array of important projects designed to drive social inclusion as well as...
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Duplicative biometric databases in Nigeria, India face criticism
A database dubbed the National Education Repository and Databank (NERD) put in place to manage a student loans scheme in Nigeria has been greeted with mixed feelings. So too have criticisms rocked a...
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