UIDAI refuses disclosure on liveness project as Indian police crack down on cybercrime

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has declined to answer inquiries regarding its recent efforts to combat Aadhaar-based frauds, claiming confidentiality.

The news comes from a Medianama report, which also mentions the partnership UIDAI entered with IIT-Bombay in April to develop a touchless biometric capture system for fingerprint authentication.

The collaboration aims to build a mobile capture system with a "liveness model" to detect spoofed fingerprints among genuine ones. In other words, the biometric authentication mechanism …

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