Indian public concerned about fingerprint payment scheme
The Guardian is reporting that a prominent think tank has found that the prospect of using fingerprint authentication for everyday payments is raising privacy concerns among the Indian public. The...
View ArticlePublic-private surveillance project in India raises privacy concerns
A surveillance project in Mumbai that would see private and public establishments share their CCTV feed with the police is raising privacy concerns over allowing police access to private networks,...
View ArticleBiometrics-enabled e-boarding trial completed at Bengaluru airport
An e-boarding pilot, powered by Safran Identity & Security’s MorphoWave touchless biometric technology deployed in a fully operational environment, has been successfully completed at Southern...
View ArticleAadhaar authentication devices will have to comply with new encryption standards
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the governing agency in charge of Aadhaar, will make it mandatory for all devices using Aadhaar authentication to comply with its new encryption...
View ArticleAadhaar can’t be made compulsory for government welfare programs
The Supreme Court of India said that the government cannot make it compulsory to have an Aadhaar card to receive benefits from government welfare schemes, according to a report by Firstpost. The...
View ArticleAadhaar to assume social security status in India
According to an article published in the Financial Express, the Indian government is working towards assigning Aadhaar status similar to Social Security in the United States. Aadhaar is the 12-digit...
View Article88 percent of India’s population is Aadhaar registered
According to an article in ieNation, 88.2% of India has now has been registered under the Aadhaar biometric identity program. Aadhaar is the 12-digit unique identification number issued by the Indian...
View ArticleIndia looking to implement Aadhaar-based system for airport check-in
The Indian government has called on IT firm Wipro to develop a plan for implementing Aadhaar-based system to biometrically identify travelers at all airports across the country, according to a report...
View ArticleIndian gov’t says it won’t link Aadhaar to national security databases
The Indian government has stated that it will not link its Aadhaar biometric identification scheme with its national intelligence databases. Ravi Shankar Prasad, India’s Minister of Law and Justice,...
View ArticleLatest Micromax smartphone features Fingerprint Cards touch sensor FPC1035
The recently launched smartphone from Indian OEM Micromax features Fingerprint Cards (FPC) touch sensor FPC1035. In a company statement, FPC noted that this is the first time a Fingerprint Cards...
View ArticleIndia’s tax department aiming to link bank accounts to Aadhaar by April 30
India’s tax department announced that all individuals who opened a bank account from July 2014 to August 2015 will have to submit know your customer (KYC) details and their Aadhaar number to banks and...
View ArticleFormer chairman of UIDAI honored for economic and business innovation
The man behind the creation of India’s biometric national ID system has been awarded one of this year’s Nikkei Asia Prizes. Nandan Nilekani of India, former chairman of the Unique Identification...
View ArticleReport claims millions of Aadhaar registration and bank numbers compromised
According to the BBC News, a new report published by the Centre for Internet and Society claims that between 130 to 135 million numbers in India’s Aadhaar biometric registry system, and around 100...
View ArticleScientists develop biometric, solar powered ATM for rural India
India’s Minister of Science & Technology, Harsh Vardhan, announced this week that a team of scientists led by professor Gon Chaudhuri have developed a touch screen, solar powered, biometric ATM for...
View ArticleFIDO Alliance, DSCI to promote stronger authentication standards in India
The FIDO Alliance has partnered with the Data Security Council of India (DSCI) to launch the FIDO India Working Group in an effort to raise awareness of strong authentication standards and solutions in...
View ArticleIndian government makes biometrics mandatory for e-projects
The Indian government has made biometrics a mandatory consideration for all electronic government projects. In recently issued guidance notes for e-government implementation, consultant procurement and...
View ArticleStudy finds India leading world in biometric technology adoption
HSBC published a new research report entitled ‘Trust in Technology’, which found that people in Asia and the Middle East are ahead of Western countries when it comes to the adoption of biometric...
View ArticleUIDAI extends deadline for new security key for biometric authentication devices
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the governing agency in charge of Aadhaar, has given a four-month extension to manufacturers and user agencies to comply with the new encryption...
View ArticleIndia postpones PM’s plans to link Aadhaar to taxes
India’s Supreme Court said in a ruling that citizens cannot be forced to enroll for Aadhaar — a 12-digit unique identity number based on collected biometric information — to file tax returns, which...
View ArticleIndia’s mobile payments interface to include pre-authorized payments, biometrics
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) Ltd. plans to launch an update to its Unified Payments Interface (UPI) system later this year. NPCI launched UPI in April 2016 with the aim of becoming a...
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