We've devoted a whole lot of attention to India's UID project, but I don't recall coming across these details about how the project works before.
Mark Crego, senior defence and public safety executive at Accenture, told UKAuthority.com the fingerprint and iris data has already been captured for 100 million people, with facial recognition as a further check that data is correct by matching numbers with gender and age band. "Sometimes you might be enrolling the whole family, in which case the officer entering the data might get it wrong. But using the technology, you can match on age as well, so the system could see if a male adult number was being wrongly ascribed to a 12-year-old girl, for example.The rest of the article contains some good insight into facial recognition systems.
The vast process of registering all India's citizens, including those in extremely remote areas, inevitably involves a mix of high and low tech solutions, Crego said. While registration officials would have access to high-tech portable or mobile enrolment stations, often the results of registration including biometrics would have to be saved onto encrypted thumb-drives and sent back to base in the ordinary postal service, he said.
