New Delhi, January 15: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Monday announced the addition of facial recognition-based authentication for Aadhaar users, especially those who have problems with other forms of biometric verification such as fingerprint or iris, and said it will be launched by July 1 this year.
“UIDAI introduces yet another landmark technology for authentication – Face Authentication. #AadhaarFaceAuth will help all elderly or other facing issues with fingerprint authentication. Service to be launched by July 1, 2018,” Ajay Bhushan Pandey, CEO UIDAI said in a tweet.
The UIDAI, which runs the world’s largest biometric identity card scheme, said in a circular that the photo of the face of the resident, captured at the time of enrolling for the 12-digit number, can also be “leveraged to verify the identity of a Aadhaar number holder”.