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authID partners to bring its biometric security to India
authID recently signed a $10 million multi-year agreement with an unnamed AI company that offers multi-national companies tools to enable authentication for a range of industries in India. As per...
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Au10tix expands operations, brings IDV suite to India
Au10tix is continuing its global market penetration and expansion efforts with the opening of an office in Bengaluru, the center of India's high-tech industry,. Noting India’s digital ID and digital...
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South Africa adopts biometrics for social protection, following India’s example
As governments worldwide strive to address inequality and build resilient communities, innovative digital tools are emerging as key enablers for social protection initiatives. Such governments,...
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India fast-tracks farmer IDs to support digital agriculture drive
The Indian Ministry of Agriculture has urged state governments to expedite the issuance of farmer IDs, a move aimed at strengthening the nation’s agricultural sector through digitization. The...
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Digital ID can help Sri Lanka expand tax base: Deloitte
Sri Lanka seems to be caught in a chicken-and-egg situation regarding its development of digital ID as its ministry sets out an agenda for its ongoing digital transformation. Sri Lanka has faced major...
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Deepfake detection advancing with multi-signal approach
Fraud attempts carried out with deepfakes have become established as part of the online security landscape, with organizations turning to presentation attack detection and injection attack detection...
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Indian leader Modi meets Sri Lankan counterpart for agreement on DPI roll out
Sri Lanka is getting a helping hand from India in its roll out of digital public infrastructure, the two countries’ leaders agreed in a face-to-face meeting. Prime minister Narendra Modi hosted...
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India transforming public finance with digital identity and biometrics
India has implemented substantial digital initiatives to streamline pension verification and welfare benefit distribution. The digital life certificate system and Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) program...
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APAAR digital student ID issued to more than 65% of students in Maharashtra
The government of India’s Maharashtra state has issued 16,500,000 students with the country’s Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry (APAAR) digital ID, according to a report in Indian Express....
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Southeast Asia’s biggest economy highlights India as DPI leader
The largest country in Southeast Asia and the most populous, with the region’s biggest economy, Indonesia has serious ambitions when it comes to digital public infrastructure and transformation,...
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Internal govt coordination can help meet birth registration target in Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa is the region where the biggest improvements must be made to meet the UN’s birth registration goals, but UNICEF’s latest report also points to Oceania and South Asia as regions...
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Growing use of advocacy for facial recognition to identify deceased
India is considering the use of facial recognition to identify deceased persons and unidentified “found persons.” The proposal was put forward by the country’s Union Home Minister Amit Shah while...
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Draft Indian data protection rules set vague age assurance, consent requirements
India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) wants to require consent for personal data processing and age assurance for social media with draft rules to operationalize its data...
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Sri Lanka advised to build necessary safeguards as digital ID project begins...
The Sri Lankan government has been told that it must put in place certain safeguards in order to guarantee full sovereign control over its Unique Digital Identity project (SL-UID) ID which is expected...
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India targets 110M digital farmer IDs as AgriStack’s importance grows
From 2025, farmers in India will be required to have a farmer ID to receive government benefits. The digital identity program is a significant part of the government’s efforts to digitize its...
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Caribbean countries look to India for digital public infrastructure solutions
India has been pitching its solutions for digital public infrastructure (DPI) across the Caribbean region. But aside from the technology, the country also may have lessons in building legal systems...
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L1 biometric device certification now mandatory for Aadhaar authentication
India has transitioned to more secure biometric authentication devices, with the requirement for only registered devices certified to the Level 1 standard set by the Unique Identification Authority of...
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Biometric authentication required for SIM card registration in India and...
Following a spike in mobile telecommunications fraud and other related crimes, the government of India has directed that all new SIM card connections must henceforth be mandatorily activated with...
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India registers over 1B Aadhaar face authentications as adoption grows
The rate of face authentication using the Aadhaar digital ID system in India is on a steady growth trajectory with more than 100 crore (over one billion) transactions completed to date. Aadhaar face...
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Next partners with Indian OEM on slim biometric module with liveness detection
Next Biometrics has been chosen by a new partner in India to collaborate on a biometric module with liveness detection utilizing the Norway-based company’s Active Thermal fingerprint sensors. The...
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