Aadhaar

India drops a proposal to require Apple, Google, Samsung, and other smartphone makers to preinstall the country's biometric identification app Aadhaar on phones

India drops a proposal to require Apple, Google, Samsung, and other smartphone makers to preinstall the country's biometric identification app Aadhaar on phones

India's government has decided not to go ahead with a proposal to require Apple (AAPL.O), Samsung (005930.KS) …

Letters: industry groups pushed back after India proposed in January that Apple, Google, and others consider pre-installing biometric ID app Aadhaar on phones

India's government privately proposed in January that firms like Apple, Samsung and Google consider pre-installing …

During a Mumbai trade visit, UK PM Keir Starmer hailed India's digital ID program Aadhaar as a “massive success”, as the UK plans to introduce digital ID cards

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India expands Aadhaar, a digital identity verification framework linked to 1.4B+ people's biometrics, to let businesses authenticate customers via the service

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Aadhaar, India's biometric ID program, had its constitutional status upheld in a year of breaches, food rations being denied due to scanning failures, and more

Aria Thaker / Quartz :

In an year of breaches, data leaks, and reports of starvation deaths due to faulty implementation, India's Aadhaar had its constitutional status upheld in 2018

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India's Supreme Court says controversial Aadhaar program, with the world's largest biometric database, is constitutionally valid and does not violate privacy

Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News :

India's Aadhaar program is unparalleled both in the mass collection of biometric data and how it's linked to everything, from food, tickets to phones, finances

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Sources: Uber and Ola are considering using India's Aadhaar biometric system to screen drivers, while Airbnb is exploring using it to authenticate Indian hosts

An Indian visitor gives a thumb impression to withdraw money from his bank account with his Aadhaar card in January 2017. Tweets: @mat Tweets: Mat Honan / @mat : Aadhaar is one of those stories Americ...