Biometric Privacy Platform adds a privacy and consumer-choice layer on top of Aadhaar online and offline authentication modes.Aadhaar is the world’s largest biometric Digital Identity program with more than 90 percent of Indians linking Aadhaar to most government and non-governmental services such as those related to taxation, cooking gas subsidy, banking, passports, and so on..Biometric Privacy Platform adds a privacy and consumer-choice layer on top of Aadhaar online and offline authentication modes. David Burnett, CEO and Founder, Identity Devices, “Identity Devices is committed to the principle that individuals should have power over their personal data, what and when to share it, and how it is used. Devices that have integrated BPP and its authentication modalities enable user interaction to make dynamic choices at the time of each authentication event.”Identity Devices recently partnered with world-leading biometrics company Fingerprint Cards (Fingerprints) partnership to accelerate biometric adoption in the global Digital Identity, Financial Technology (FinTech), Internet of Things (IoT) and other innovative, fast-growing vertical markets.According to Mr.”Adding to this, Mukesh Singh, VP, Sales and Marketing, Identity Devices, India, said,
There is enormous demand for fingerprint and iris authentication in India now that systems like Aadhaar have demonstrated the ease-of-use, viability and economic benefits of multi-modal biometric authentication at very large scale. Biometric Privacy Platform increases ease of convenience, personal privacy and data security by putting residents in charge of how their Aadhaar data is used. The solutions offered by Identity Devices will make it easier than ever before for Digital Identity, IoT and FinTech device makers to add biometric features that allow them to connect more securely to popular authentication and identity ecosystems. Biometric Privacy Platform (BPP) consists of authentication hardware and software for the Aadhaar ecosystem, preserving convenience while increasing personal privacy and data security and putting the resident in charge of the use of their Aadhaar data including picture, name, address, mobile number and more.