{"id":966810,"date":"2025-10-08T09:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=966810"},"modified":"2025-10-08T10:46:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:16:39","slug":"uidai-pitches-for-aadhaar-based-face-authentication-for-high-value-financial-transactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/08\/uidai-pitches-for-aadhaar-based-face-authentication-for-high-value-financial-transactions\/","title":{"rendered":"UIDAI pitches for Aadhaar-based face authentication for high-value financial transactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) may soon allow an Aadhaar-based face authentication mechanism for high-value financial transactions, a senior UIDAI official said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;UIDAI is the foundational infrastructure. It&#8217;s the only way to surely know who is who? We have the world&#8217;s largest biometric database. We advocate very strongly the use of face authentication as a modality in the multi-factor assessment,&#8221; Abhishek Kumar Singh, Deputy Director General at UIDAI, said during a panel discussion at the Global Fintech Fest 2025 in Mumbai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) may soon allow an Aadhaar-based face authentication mechanism for high-value financial transactions, a senior UIDAI official said on Tuesday. &#8220;UIDAI is the foundational infrastructure. It&#8217;s the only way to surely know who is who? We have the world&#8217;s largest biometric database. We advocate very strongly the use of face authentication as a modality in the multi-factor assessment,&#8221; Abhishek Kumar Singh, Deputy Director General at UIDAI, said during a panel discussion at the Global Fintech Fest 2025 in Mumbai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}