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Aadhaar-enabled mobiles must adhere to standards: UIDAI
The availability of smart devices that are Aadhaar-enabled will help people authenticate their Aadhaar biometrics on the phone itself to avail of various government schemes, subsidies and services. UIDAI Chief executive Officer Ajay Bhushan Pandey said integrating Aadhaar into every handset was not mandatory.
New Delhi: Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which is in discussions with handset makers and operating system providers, on Sunday said companies wishing to embed the identification technology onto their devices will have to “adhere to encryption standards”.
The availability of smart devices that are Aadhaar-enabled will help people authenticate their Aadhaar biometrics on the phone itself to avail of various government schemes, subsidies and services. UIDAI Chief executive Officer Ajay Bhushan Pandey said integrating Aadhaar into every handset was not mandatory.
However, companies that are looking at bringing new models with support for Aadhaar authentication will have to adhere to certain encryption standards. Pandey said the talks were on with various players to “evolve” an encryption standard that works for both parties.
We have had three rounds of discussions to discuss technical details. If a device manufacturer or an OS provider wants to provide Aadhaar authentication facility to consumers on their devices, then what is it that should be done?” Pandey asked.
He added that the discussions centred on exploring the steps that need to be taken by both the parties so that “a common framework emerges”. The previous rounds of discussions have seen participation from representatives of Samsung, Lenovo, Sony, Micromax and others.
Micromax, Intex, Lava and Reliance Retail’s Lyf are in talks with US-based Delta ID, which claims to hold patent for iris-based recognition technology. If formalised, these handset makers will be able to integrate the said technology to make the devices Aadhaar-enabled, Delta ID co-founder Nirmal Prakash said.
Samsung is the only phone maker to have already embedded Delta ID’s ActiveIRIS technology in its Galaxy Tab Iris. They have to build encryption standards.
That is what we are working on together. We are trying to evolve some encryption standard easy for them to implement and easy for us to accept. Several rounds of discussions have taken place and several rounds of discussions will happen in future,” the CEO added.
