Microsoft has offered case scenarios of how its VOIP calling service Skype can authenticate identity using the Aadhaar database to the government. The company said that it already supports iris authentication on Windows 10. Bhaskar Pramanik, Microsoft’s India chairman said that Skype could especially be used to authenticate users who access government services. Microsoft begun working on a pilot to integrate Skype with the Aadhaar database this February. At the time, the company was testing if Aadhaar could be used to identify users for video calls with government organisations and institutions. Additional details on the authentication are not available at the moment. In March 2015, Vodafone had launched a new pilot project in Kolkata where it would use Aadhaar verification to issue new prepaid and postpaid connections. Last month, major telcos including Airtel, Vodafone and Idea started deploying Aadhaar based eKYC verifications for mobile connections in India, following a notification issued by the Department of Telecom. In November 2014, Chandrababu Naidu, Andhra Pradesh’s Chief Minister, said that “Aadhaar accounts, and seeded all other benefits to aadhaar accounts: housing, pensions, agriculture loans. There’s enormous savings on the PDS, with all bogus removed. We’re able to save Rs 700 crores every year.” The Aadhaar Bill 2016 was passed in the Parliament about 6 months ago. The bill was was introduced as a money bill, which exclusively contains provisions for imposition and abolition of taxes, for appropriation of moneys out of a consolidated fund. DigiLocker and Aadhaar authentication Earlier this month, the government said…
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