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The rise of digital public infrastructure boosts India towards an $8T GDP by...
India's advances in digital modernization have taken an enormous rise with the advent of digital public infrastructure (DPI), known as India Stack, composed to overhaul the country’s landscape. The...
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DPI gets cloud service launch, UN working groups and a definition of ‘public’
Cloud-based on-demand technology provided as a service could address a series of challenges associated with rolling out digital public infrastructure, particularly in countries with developing...
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India orders integration of two health IDs to facilitate access to unified...
Since April 1, it has become compulsory for Indians to link their Central Government Health Services (CGHS) beneficiary ID with the Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA) ID. As Business Standard (BS)...
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Online age verification debates continue in Canada, EU, India
Introducing age verification to protect children online remains a hot topic across the globe: Canada is debating the Online Harms Act, the European Union experimenting with an online age assurance...
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IOM and Japan back biometrics at Sri Lanka ports of entry
Biometric technology use continues to grow at airports around the world. Air transport industry IT provider SITA predicts that by 2026, over half of check-ins and baggage drops will use biometrics,...
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Digi Yatra sidelines legacy facial recognition app maker amid data breach rumors
India’s airport facial recognition program Digi Yatra is courting controversy again after an app update and accusations that passengers’ personal data has been breached, The Hindu reports. The...
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Digital policy expert X-rays differences in G7, G20 approaches to DPI
The visions shared by the G7 and G20 on the development of digital public infrastructure (DPI) differ at three major levels, even if the ultimate goal is to make life more liveable for citizens of the...
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Initiative in the works in India to gauge state-level adoption of DPI
An initiative is underway in India to set up an index to determine the level of digital public infrastructure (DPI) adoption by all states in the country as a way of better positioning their digital...
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Digi Yatra biometrics to apply to foreign travel, hotels with e-passport launch
India’s Digi Yatra biometric airport ID system is promising to be available to international travelers by the end of 2025, according to a report in the Financial Express. The non-profit Digi Yatra...
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India introducing more stringent KYC rules for financial industry
India’s financial sector is beefing up its Know Your Customer (KYC) protocols under pressure from regulators. Financial institutions aim to add more verification layers for identifying accounts and...
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Bank of Ireland to introduce voice biometrics to authentication for phone...
Bank of Ireland announced it will invest more than €34 million (roughly US$36 million) to upgrade its phone and CRM systems, including adding voice biometrics for authentication. The use of voice...
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Indian police adopt facial recognition despite risk of massive data breaches
“Real-time facial recognition” typically refers to continuous biometric monitoring. But it applies equally as well to the experience of watching in real time as warnings about facial recognition give...
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Indian Railways deploys Herta facial recognition to secure train stations
Indian Railways has launched a program to enhance the safety of its train stations in the Eastern region by utilizing Herta Security’s facial recognition technology. Startologic has been chosen as the...
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Demystifying cross-border data transfer compliance for Indian enterprises
By Sathish Jayabal, Director of Product Management Privacy at Exterro In today’s digital economy, data flows globally at an unprecedented scale, powering economies and enabling international business...
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Digi Yatra keeps expanding, learns from growing pains
Digi Yatra Foundation CEO Suresh Khadakbhavi is on the PR trail, as India’s biometric app to facilitate quicker boarding prepares to expand coverage to international travel. The airport ID...
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India introduces data sharing revocation amid biometrics adoption surge
The role of digitalization and biometrics in facilitating governance and public service delivery in a country as vast and diverse as India has once again earned the spotlight. It is the quintessence...
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National digital identity authorities share real-world governance and service...
In a session at the recent ID4Africa 2024 AGM, representatives from various corners of the globe converged to discuss the transformative power of digital identity systems. The panel discussion delved...
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Lax security, procurement alleged behind Indian police facial recognition app...
A biometric data breach from a police system in Telangana, India that may have exposed the facial images of an unknown number of criminal suspects and police officers has been reported. Police...
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India has 170 facial recognition systems, but only a handful are operational
The use of biometric facial recognition for large-scale surveillance and crime prevention has become widespread. According to the Panoptic Tracker by the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), there are...
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Indian military-backed startup presents dual face and gait biometric system
India’s defense, law enforcement and other agencies may soon have a new authentication system that combines facial recognition with gait analysis. The software solution is named Divya Drishti and was...
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