UIDAI set to introduce face authentication feature from 1 July

New Delhi:The Unique Identification Authority of India is all set to make face authentication available alongside iris or fingerprint scan as means of verifying Aadhaar users from 1 July, 2018. The UIDAI, which is in-charge of the 12-digit identifier Aadhaar, in January had announced that it will introduce face authentication feature to help those who run into problems in biometric authentication due to old age, hardwork or worn-out fingerprints. In a presentation to the Supreme Court last week where he emphasised the robustness of the Aadhaar encryption system saying breaking it may take “more than the age of the universe for the fastest computer on earth”, UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey also informed that the proposed face authentication feature will be introduced by 1 July. “Face authentication shall be available in fusion mode along with one more authentication factor like fingerprint/iris/OTP from 1 July, 2018,” he had said in the power point presentation titled ‘1 billion +’.