Will Aadhaar’s New AI-Based Security Successfully Prevent Data Breaches?

By Hera Rizwan The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI rolled out a new artificial intelligence-based security mechanism for fingerprint authentication earlier this week that aims to detect attempts of fingerprint spoofing faster. According to the press release, this would make the “Aadhaar authentication transactions even more robust and secure”. How will the new security mechanism work? The artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) based security mechanism has been developed “in-house”. The mechanism will use a combination of both finger minutia and finger image in ord…

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