Indian govt’s insistence that Aadhaar is secure rings hollow in wake of breaches
India is bleeding biometric information, with new data breaches giving credence to a recent report by the credit rating agency…
Aadhaar
Aadhaar is the 12-digit unique identification number issued by the Indian government to every individual resident of India. The Aadhaar project aims to provide a single, unique identifier which captures all the demographic and biometric details of every resident of India.
India mandates use of Aadhaar to streamline disability card issuance
The government of India has announced that the Aadhaar biometric digital ID can now be used as proof of ID…
India pushes liveness detection to biometric devices to cut payments fraud
The growing wave of fraud perpetrated against the Aadhaar-enabled Payments System (AePS), the widely-used last mile payments platform in India,…
Indian govt fires back at Moody’s ‘sweeping assertions’ about Aadhaar biometrics
Moody’s has faced a strong retort from the Indian government after the American credit ratings, research and data organization sharply…
UIDAI delays India’s biometrics program for fighting GST fraud by blocking database
Biometric authentication measures meant to combat tax fraud committed through India’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) registration process are on…
Biometric authentication tender launched for food benefits program in Indian state
A tender process is underway to select a biometric solution provider for a supplementary food distribution program dubbed “poshahar” in…
India ups investment in digital public infrastructure, plans DigiLocker extension
The Digital India program that includes the national digital identity, Aadhaar, as well as public sector systems for biometric authentication…
Indian central bank to pilot open banking platform using Aadhaar KYC
India’s central bank is planning a pilot program for a digital platform intended to extend the country’s digital public infrastructure…
The India Stack infrastructure roadshow stops in Trinidad and Tobago
India is hoping to be a global leader in digital public infrastructure and identity software, and it is pitching its…
India’s data protection bill passes lower house of Parliament, raises privacy concerns
India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Bill of 2023 passed in the lower house of Parliament and will now face the…
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