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Rise of digital wallets integrating payments and digital identities across Asia
Digital wallets have grown from innovation to an essential financial instrument, easily integrating into billions of people's daily activities. By the end of 2024, 4.8 billion people globally were...
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Mantra architect highlights biometric hardware design in securing ecosystems
The latest European Association of Biometrics (EAB) Lunch Talk features Mahesh Patel, principal technical architect at Mantra Softech, one of the largest technology and electronics firms in India. The...
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Advanced deepfake defenses mustering in India, US, South Korea
Digital threats are global threats. As deepfakes generated with generative AI algorithms flood the online space, governments and private companies around the world are shoring up defenses. In India,...
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Aadhaar enables an ‘epidemic’ of IDs in India
The Aadhaar ecosystem continues to grow, but it’s not all good news. The proliferation of IDs like the “One Nation, One Student ID” is opening up challenges and vulnerabilities, according to critics....
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Aadhaar biometric testing ramps up with UIDAI challenge, PAD compliance
Fingerprint biometrics testing in India has ramped up with authorities requiring certification of scanners based on presentation attack detection capabilities and now a program to advance research...
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FPC expands Indian biometrics market presence with new distribution deal
Sweden-based Fingerprint Cards (FPC) has announced a new distribution partnership with Indian company SM Electronic Technologies (SMET), as part of efforts to expand its presence in that country’s...
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DPI is the new ‘global tech bet’ and these are the five core motivations for...
Digital public infrastructure is the new “global tech bet” — except everyone is betting on something different. That is according to David Eaves, an associate professor of digital government and a...
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Indian high court rules that biometric verification failure cannot deny legal...
In India one of its high courts has ruled that biometric verification failure cannot be a reason to deny a person’s legal or fundamental rights. The Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court...
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India launches Aadhaar app with face biometric authentication
India’s Union government has launched a beta test for a mobile application that has been designed to render the verification of Aadhaar digital ID much easier, and with more robust security and...
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India moves to require digital ID for farmer and food subsidies
India continues to introduce more stringent biometric-based identity verification requirements for receiving benefits and subsidies and inclusion into welfare programs. The country’s agricultural...
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Nametag integrates with Aadhaar, enabling selfie verification for 1B in India
Nametag has launched a major integration with Aadhaar, enabling the more than one billion users of India’s digital identity system to perform identity verification with digital ID. The integration is...
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DPI eases financial inclusion, benefits delivery from India to Finland
As countries continue to roll out their digital transformation programs, conversations about the critical role of digital public infrastructure (DPI) are taking an increasingly preponderant place....
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What is Aadhaar?
India introduced Aadhaar in a government initiative to provide Indians with a unique identification number. The purpose was to simplify access to public welfare systems by linking citizens’ identities...
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Strings attached to Sri Lanka’s quest for MOSIP integrator revealed
Expressions of interest will be called for a software integrator for MOSIP (Modular Open-Source Identity Platform), an open-source software system that creates and manages Sri Lanka's digital identity...
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India helps Angola with DPI, digital ID as part of $200M credit line
Angola is getting $200 million in credit from India as the African country looks to implement digital public infrastructure. The partnership will see Angola adopting India’s model of DPI which will...
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Next continues to make Aadhaar biometrics inroads with multi-million dollar deal
Next Biometrics has signed an agreement with India-based customer ACPL to supply it with between 55 million and 107 million Norwegian kroner (roughly $5.3 million to $10.3 million) worth of advanced...
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Aadhaar authentication and digital KYC transactions surge in India
India’s ministry of electronics and IT (MeitY) is celebrating a milestone in Aadhaar-based authentication as it crosses 150 billion transactions. Launched in 2009 by the Unique Identification...
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