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Sri Lanka extends bid deadline for national digital ID project
The Government of Sri Lanka has extended the deadline for the submission of bids for the procurement of a Master System Integrator (MSI) for the Sri Lanka Unique Digital Identity (SL-UDI) project....
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India launches airport biometric system to fast-track immigration checks
In a bid to speed up the Immigration clearance process for Indian nationals and foreign nationals holding Overseas Citizen of India OCI card, Union Home Minister Amit Shah recently launched the Fast...
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India’s NHA to advance digital healthcare via ABHA card tokenization
The National Health Authority’s (NHA) plan to digitize healthcare services in India has gone further along with the recent announcement of over 30 million tokenized cards for Out-Patient Department...
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Digi Yatra needs more individual control over data privacy, NITI Aayog argues
The Digi Yatra program, an initiative by the Ministry of Civil Aviation to enhance airport travel experience through facial recognition technology, has raised several data privacy concerns, according...
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Modi praises Digital India’s DPI gains at 9-year anniversary
The Digital India program has overhauled the country’s digital public infrastructure (DPI), according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who praised the initiative's success across domains. Digital...
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Sri Lanka ID card project new tender imminent after cabinet approval
After many months of backroom discussions, the Sri Lankan cabinet has given its greenlight for a new national ID card project tender. The stamp of approval was given recently and the file has been...
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India’s data protection law must hold platforms accountable on child safety:...
In the debate over how to regulate age-restricted content online, truths that are common across borders often bump up against regional challenges. In a webinar hosted by the Citizen Digital Foundation...
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Aratek fingerprint biometrics improves inmate verification in India
Taiwan-based fingerprint biometrics provider Aratek says a partnership with Indian firm Dialtronics helped improve the authentication system for inmates across correctional services in India through...
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India G20 Task Force report defines course of global DPI development
A report that is expected to influence the trajectory of digital public infrastructure (DPI) development around the world and strengthen the foundation for implementation has been released by a team...
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Facial recognition and AI monitoring deployed in India’s largest railway network
India’s rail networks are adding AI and facial recognition systems to their stations, part of a growing biometrics and surveillance market experts predict will be worth more than US$15 billion within...
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New ‘highly secure’ biometric system proposed for food ration distribution in...
A study published in the International Research Journal on Advanced Engineering and Management has proposed a new fingerprint biometric system to authenticate and identify beneficiaries of food ration...
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India’s UPSC seeks biometric authentication tech to combat civil service exam...
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has issued a call for tenders to implement digital biometric technologies aimed at bolstering measures against impersonation, cheating, and fraud in its...
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India reports 1.38B Aadhaar numbers generated
India’s minister of state for electronic and information technology, Shri Jitin Prasada, says that to date, 1.38 billion Aadhaar numbers have been generated. Aadhaar is a digital identity program that...
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RBI mandates dynamically generated authentication for digital payments
To support advancements in authentication technology, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has mandated the implementation of an additional factor of authentication (AFA). These factors must be dynamically...
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India looks to biometric MFA startups to stanch flow of UPI financial fraud
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is pursuing biometric startups to provide biometric authentication for Unified Payments Interface (UPI) mobile transactions, to add additional...
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Live facial recognition, 700 CCTV cameras at Red Fort for India’s...
The Government of India has announced plans to implement a sophisticated AI-based camera security system at the Red Fort for the upcoming Independence Day celebrations. These devices will incorporate...
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DPI for farmers a central feature of India’s 2024-2025 budget
India is extending its digital public infrastructure to the agriculture sector with its 2024-2025 budget, and working towards bringing DPI applications in a range of sectors to its whole population. A...
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Indian regulator considers biometric authentication for UPI payments
The National Payments Corporation of India is considering integrating biometric authentication into its Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions as a replacement for the current PIN or...
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Biometrics feature launched by Airtel as India steps up KYC
Digital payments have surged in popularity in India, particularly through methods such as the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). However, with this rise in digital transactions comes an increased risk...
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India’s central bank launches lending platform connected to Aadhaar KYC
Governor Shaktikanta Das of the Reserve Bank of India has announced a nationwide launch of the Unified Lending Interface (ULI), which aims to change the digital lending processes in India. The project...
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