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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.

 

Rumored breach of India’s vaccination data portal threatens to undermine DPI influence

Reports are swirling that India’s public vaccination portal, CoWIN, has suffered a breach of huge volumes of personal information, including…

 

Mixed progress for digital IDs linked to payments in Japan, Australia and India

In a wave of digital transformations across multiple nations, Japan has faced challenges with its My Number digital ID system,…

 

Facial recognition used to identify victims of deadly train accident in India

Railway authorities have used facial recognition technology to determine the identity of at least 50 dead bodies from the recent…

 

Indian PM warned of rising Aadhaar payment fraud

Financial fraud related to the country’s unique biometric identifier Aadhaar is rising rapidly in India with, Indian Parliament member John…

 

J-PAL shares lessons from India’s digital ID program Aadhaar

The story of the Aadhaar biometric identity scheme in India continues to be shared as an example of how countries…

 

Proposal to change Aadhaar authentication rules faces more opposition

The plan by India’s government to make rule changes that will allow private entities carry out ID authentication using the…

 

India’s Aadhaar-based UPI payment platform allures Japan

Japan and India plan to take their digital cooperation to a new level with the former confessing a strong attraction…

 

7 countries partner with India to adopt its digital public infrastructure model

Member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan have agreed on adopting India’s…

 

India launches Aadhaar operator training campaign to reduce errors

Indian authorities are conducting a nationwide campaign to increase the efficiency of the country’s biometric identity scheme Aadhaar after miscommunications…

 

India okays 22 financial entities to perform Aadhaar biometric authentication

Twenty-two financial institutions have been granted the right to perform authentication using the Aadhaar biometric ID, in line with stipulations…

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