Details of the disconnected numbers were also shared with banks, payment wallets and social media platforms to disconnect these numbers from their respective platforms.
Messaging platform WhatsApp has asked the center to block several accounts of users using mobile connections in potentially fraudulent ways, detected by government-developed facial recognition-based artificial intelligence tools. “We cooperated,” Union Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnau said. The government is also working with other social media platforms, he added.
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The tool, called Telecom SIM Subscriber Verification Solution (ASTR), leverages artificial intelligence and facial recognition to detect individuals who have registered more than nine mobile connections, the current maximum allowed. Developed by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in . They were created using legal means.
In one case, 6,800 connections were obtained for the same image of a subscriber (same face, different name), Weishnau said. In another case, for the same image (same face, different name) he got 5,300 connections.
According to the Ministry of Communications, more than 87 million mobile connections were analyzed using ASTR in the first phase, and more than 40 million cases of using a single photo to obtain a mobile connection were detected. rice field. More than 36 million connections were terminated by carriers after “appropriate validation.”
Details of the disconnected numbers were also shared with banks, payment wallets and social media platforms to disconnect these numbers from their respective platforms.
A WhatsApp spokesperson said: “…We appreciate the Minister’s recognition of WhatsApp’s continued commitment to user safety. We have been actively working with the government to ensure that
He introduced Sanchar Saathi, a single-window website that summarizes initiatives already released by the government, including TAFCOP, a system that allows users to see how many SIM cards are registered under their name, and central facilities. I was announcing the release of the portal. The Identity Register (CEIR) is a system that allows people who have lost or stolen a mobile phone to remotely block their mobile phones from use on the Indian telecommunications network.
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Date first published: May 17, 2023, 05:01 IST
