Facial recognition-based authentication could soon be coming to Aadhaar. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is running a pilot project to test out its functionality for financial services, Vivek Raghavan, chief product manager and biometric architect at UIDAI, revealed details about the pilot, run with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), during the Indian government's RAISE 2020 Summit (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment, 2020). "We don't need to have this [face authentication] for every [Aadhaar] service, but it should be able to do it [sic] at any place and on any device," Raghavan said. He said that the UIDAI has built "advanced liveness models" to further strengthen the facial recognition algorithm. Liveness detection allows a facial recognition system to ascertain that the face being shown to the camera is a real face and not another image on a separate screen. NPCI was testing the feature with four banks, ICICI Bank, Yes Bank, RBL Bank, and Fino Payments Bank, the Economic Times had reported in August. The report said that the tests were done for non-financial transactions in the first phase, and a full-scale rollout will happen only if results from the pilot are "satisfactory". The NPCI operates Aadhaar enabled payment system (AePS), which works using a Point of Sale (POS) machine, and instead of using a debit/credit card, uses a person’s Aadhaar number, which is linked to their banked account. This transaction is then authenticated using a person's biometrics, and it is possible that the NPCI could use…
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