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A new rule to discourage entities like hotels, event organisers, etc, from taking photocopy of Aadhaar cards of customers and storing them in physical form will be published soon, a senior government official said. Such practices are in contravention of the present Aadhaar Act. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) CEO Bhuvnesh Kumar told PTI that the authority has approved a new rule mandating registration of entities that seek Aadhaar-based verification like hotels, event organisers, etc, to provide them access to a new technology that will enable them to verify an individual by scanning QR code or connecting with new Aadhaar app in the works, the top official said. "The new rule has been approved by the authority and will be notified soon. It will mandate registration of offline verification-seeking entities like hotels, event organisers. The objective is to discourage paper-based Aadhaar verification," Kumar said. The new verification process will also resolve ..

Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Monday said to keep the Aadhaar database updated, intimations are issued to Aadhaar number holders from time to time, but no number has been cancelled. Aadhaar, as the most commonly used digital identity, is used to avail of numerous subsidies, benefits and services, UIDAI said on its website adding that to maintain the accuracy of the Aadhaar database, the authority had initiated an exercise for update of documents and Aadhaar information. "In the course of activities undertaken to keep the Aadhaar database updated, intimations are issued from time to time to Aadhaar number holders. In this connection, it is clarified that no Aadhaar number has been cancelled," UIDAI said. In case any Aadhaar number holder has any grievance they can submit their feedback to UIDAI, it said, promising that grievance will be duly addressed. "In case any Aadhaar number holder has any grievance in this regard, they may submit their feedback to UIDAI a

The hacker was willing to sell the entire Aadhaar and Indian passport dataset for 80,000 US dollars when contacted by Resecurity

So far, over 1,100 welfare schemes in the country run by both centre and states have been notified to use Aadhaar

Card can be verified using the QR code available on all forms of the identity document

For every Aadhaar authentication transaction performed by an Aadhaar user, the UIDAI generates a unique code to identify the transactions

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Aadhaar is a 12-digit unique identity number provided by the UIDAI to the residents of India after a certain verification process

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What's changed now is that the UIDAI will offer users the option of updating their address

The new card will have enhanced security features making it unique when compared with the long cards issued previously

The UIDAI said vested interests had misused Google's "inadvertent" act that led to appearance of its old helpline number in the contact list of several users

Google's response came as a relief for the social media community, which was in a frenzy over the mystery of the UIDAI's helpline number being found in people's contacts list