Overview
- UIDAI has released a Face Authentication SDK and a developer sandbox so organisations can embed Aadhaar face login with AI-driven liveness checks directly into their apps without a separate APK.
- The SDK performs on-device liveness detection and instant mobile authentication to stop users having to switch apps, a change meant to cut drop-offs from the earlier APK-based flow introduced in 2021.
- UIDAI says Aadhaar authentications have climbed to about 10 crore per day and that it is preparing systems to handle 25–30 crore daily authentications as demand grows.
- As part of a 10-year technology roadmap, UIDAI plans post-quantum cryptography, tokenisation for selective data sharing, and in-house, hyperscaler-like infrastructure with zero-trust design and micro-segmentation to protect sovereignty and resilience.
- UIDAI is also funding startup research and promoting 'agentic' use cases where narrow-permission AI agents perform verifications or share limited credentials, a shift that could speed fintech onboarding and let users prove attributes like age without revealing full identity.