Whether in Australia, India, Europe or the United States, mobile phones aren’t just driving interconnectivity, but are the key channel driving innovation in payments and commerce. Still, even in this digital world, where everyone and everything is connected via mobile, going global can be tough...
ZDNet, the tech news site that is facing a discrediting campaign by the Unique Identification Authority of India after reporting about a security vulnerability in the system, is sticking by its report. According to Reuters, ZDNet reported that the Unique Identification database system, otherwise known...
Is India’s push for biometric IDs a bust? According to an article in The New York Times on Sunday (Jan. 21), one economist, Reetika Khera of the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, noted that the sweeping program to issue 12-digit ID numbers to the country’s...
Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency whistleblower, is calling on the arrests of the people behind the breach of India’s biometric ID system, Aadhaar. According to a report in BuzzFeed, in a series of tweets, Snowden said the journalist who broke the news on the...
September 24, 2018
Whether in Australia, India, Europe or the United States, mobile phones aren’t just driving interconnectivity, but are the key channel driving innovation in payments and commerce. Still, even in this digital world, where everyone and everything is connected via mobile, going global can be tough for a company looking to expand its operations abroad. Payments […]
July 13, 2017
Over the last 18 months, India has moved full-speed ahead from a nearly entirely cash-based society to one with ambitions of being totally cashless. The most public — and most famous...
July 04, 2017
Eight months in, assessing the impact of what happens when you remove 86 percent of a country’s notes in circulation. India’s push toward digital payments has had effects both positive...
August 23, 2019
An Indian court has ruled that people in the country can’t link Aadhaar (unique identification) or any other government-issued identification with their social media accounts, according to reports. One Justice in India named S. Manikumar said that doing so would violate a Supreme Court ruling in the country which says that IDs can only be […]
March 26, 2018
ZDNet, the tech news site that is facing a discrediting campaign by the Unique Identification Authority of India after reporting about a security vulnerability in the system, is sticking by...
January 10, 2018
Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency whistleblower, is calling on the arrests of the people behind the breach of India’s biometric ID system, Aadhaar. According to a report in BuzzFeed,...
January 05, 2018
The government of India has started looking into a report that a database with information on its more than 1 billion citizens is being sold online. Citing The Tribune newspaper,...
