<https://www.biometricupdate.com/202112/uidai-enters-collaboration-with-world-bank-to-export-aadhaar-digital-id-architecture>
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has entered a
collaboration with the World Bank and United Nations to deploy the Aadhaar
digital ID architecture for systems outside India, The Economic Times reports,
as the authority also looks to bolster mobile face biometrics usage.
Speaking at a virtual event organized by the Payments Council of India, UIDAI
CEO Saurabh Garg said the organization is also establishing a dedicated
advisory board to help deploy Aadhaar across different sectors.
Some of these include enrolments, authentication, and customer relationship
management.
In addition, Garg confirmed the UIDAI is currently looking for additional
partners from India who can help it in exporting Aadhaar-style digital ID
systems overseas.
“In the Aadhaar ecosystem, we realized we need to partner with others outside
the UIDAI internal system. In the past, we had people from the industry.”
During the online session, Garg also announced UIDAI is planning to add more
biometrics modalities to Aadhaar’s current fingerprint and iris recognition
technologies.
“Apart from the finger, we already have iris but iris is more cumbersome to use
and it requires special devices. That’s why we are looking at facial
authentication with due precaution.”
The UIDAI already supports facial recognition through specialized devices, but
is looking at deploying Aadhaar’s facial authentication capabilities on mobile
devices.
Aadhaar’s protections for digital identities, or lack thereof, have sparked
multiple concerns and complaints from privacy advocates. It is argued the
biometric systems may be used to force vote suppression on individuals as well
as generally being deleterious for privacy due to a severe lack of regulations.
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