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India’s most controversial temple secured by facial recognition
On Wednesday, city authorities in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh officially inaugurated the Hindu temple of Ram, built on the ruins of a 16th-century mosque destroyed by violent mobs in 1992. The opening of...
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India setting up its own version of US terrorist biometrics database
The National Investigation Agency of India (NIA) is compiling the biometric data of terrorists and their associates into a comprehensive database modeled on the U.S.’ Global Terrorism Database. The...
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India continues its fight against Aadhaar fraud
India is trying to fight rampant Aadhaar fraud by compelling government institutions to improve their processes and launching crackdowns on scammers. After a petitioner filed a complaint against a...
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India envisages additional measures against growing Aadhaar-enabled payments...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is planning additional fraud risk management measures after the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) warned recently that Aadhaar-enabled Payment System (AePS) fraud via...
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Indian Supreme Court turns away challenges to prisoner biometrics, EC Aadhaar...
The Supreme Court of India has refused to admit a public interest litigation (PIL) questioning the constitutionality of the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act 2022 which entered into force in...
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UIDAI expected to advise risk assessment before using Aadhaar for age proofing
Public and private entities in India relying on Aadhaar to provide proof of things like age or address will be instructed by the Unique identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to first carry out a...
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Airport face biometrics systems arrive in Philippines, Nigeria and Spain
In Bangkok, adoption is low for biometrics at check-in, while airports in Spain and the Philippines are implementing it for the first time. India sees an uptick in adoption for the Digi Yatra system....
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DPI will contribute up to 4% to India’s GDP by 2030, report says
India’s digital public infrastructure (DPI) contributed a whopping $31.8 billion to the country’s economy in 2022 and there are projections that it will swell the economy by between 2 and 4 percent by...
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Indian Railways coaches to get 175K facial recognition cameras
India has monumental biometric surveillance plans for its equally monumental railway system. The government has posted a tender to make Indian Railways one of the, if not the most surveilled property...
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Are Indian police using facial recognition to identify protesting farmers?
Police in Ambala, in India’s state of Haryana have announced that they have begun the process to cancel passports and visas against those caught causing disturbances or breaking barricades on CCTV or...
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SIMS not registered, verified with digital IDs in Nigeria blocked
Millions of SIM cards in Nigeria have been disconnected by mobile network operators with the passing of the February 28 deadline for registration with the account-holders national digital identity,...
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Mumbai-based IDfy to use US$27M in funding for biometrics expansion, development
IDfy, an identity verification, biometrics and risk assessment platform based in Mumbai, has secured a US$27 million (approximately 2.2 billion Indian rupees) investment, in a mix of primary and...
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Telangana police tender a big biometric upgrade with a short turnaround
The Indian state of Telangana has published a rushed tender call to upgrade the police’s automated multimodal biometric identification hardware and software. The state’s Finger Print Bureau wants to...
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Delhi airport adds more Digi Yatra checkpoints amid concerns over security...
India’s largest airport has unveiled a new expansion and with it, more checkpoints utilizing biometric security clearance system Digi Yatra. The expansion of Terminal 1 will allow the Indira Gandhi...
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2.7M people in India’s Assam state may get digital ID after activation of...
The biometric data of 27 lakh (2.7 million) people in the northern Indian state of Assam could be unlocked following the activation of the country’s Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) 2019, paving the...
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Staqu’s biometric Crime GPT helps Uttar Pradesh police take a byte out of crime
India’s Staqu Technologies has launched an AI-powered bot for law enforcement called Crime GPT, a digital sidekick that can search criminal databases for biometrics and other data, based on written...
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Indian biometric counterterrorism database passes 1B entries
The National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) is a counterterrorism and counter-radicalization division operating under the Government of India. As part of its ongoing efforts to enhance national security,...
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Indian wearables apply biometrics, tokenization for accessibility and...
A youth innovator competition in India spawned an assistive device that leverages biometrics to help the visually impaired better navigate the sighted world, while an app lets users tokenize their...
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Digi Yatra app users face glitches, data privacy concerns
Travelers at Kolkata Airport are struggling to upload their boarding passes into the Digi Yatra app, which is intended to use biometrics to expedite boarding while enhancing security, according to...
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Sri Lanka fosters continued collaboration with India as country sees DPI...
At the end of March in Colombo, the High Commission of India and the Ministry of Technology, Government of Sri Lanka held a conference exploring opportunities for DPI, according to Sri Lanka Mirror....
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