-PTI NEW DELHI: The Unique Identification Authority of India (uidAI) said on Monday that Aadhaar data is completely safe and secure. Aadhaar number, it said, is not a secret number and it is to be shared with authorised agencies if one wishes to avail a certain service or benefit of government welfare schemes or other services. "Aadhaar data is fully safe and secure and there has been no data leak or breach at...
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uidAI relaxes norms for banks on Aadhaar
-PTI NEW DELHI: The uidAI has provided some "relaxation" to banks in procurement of enrolment machines and hiring private data entry operators for their Aadhaar centres, and hopes that banks will offer such services at stipulated 10% of the branches "at the earliest", its CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey has said. The Aadhaar-issuing body, Unique Identification Authority of India (uidAI), has allowed banks to hire private data entry operators and enrolment machines and...
More »Over 200 govt websites made Aadhaar details public: uidAI
-PTI NEW DELHI: More than 200 central and state government websites publicly displayed details such as names and addresses of some Aadhaar beneficiaries, the Unique Identification Authority of India has said. The Aadhaar issuing body added, in response to an RTI query, that it took note of the breach and got the data removed from those websites. It did not specify when the breach took place. It said Aadhaar details have never been made...
More »Don't create panic on Aadhaar linking: SC to banks, telcos -Amit Anand Choudhary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court eased on Friday the pressure mounted by banks and telecom companies on customers through frequent messages to link Aadhaar with bank accounts and mobile phone numbers and ordered that they intimate people about the deadline for doing so. A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said even judges are not spared from such messages, which the petitioners termed as part...
More »1,216.8 crore authentications: Govt swamps SC with uid data -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Bombarding the Supreme Court with statistics to convince it about ease of doing day-to-day activities with Aadhaar, the Centre said 118.64 crore Indians, which is 88% of the population, had obtained Aadhaar and they used it 1,216.8 crore times for authentication purposes. "As of today, the total number of Aadhaar-based authentication is 12,168,022,172. Therefore, the Indian population has used Aadhaar-based authentication over 1,216 crore times to...
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