Aadhaar Data
Aadhaar card update 2025: Step-by-step guide to correct spelling mistakes
The key identity and address proof is the Aadhaar card, which also allows for updating details & accessing government programs and benefits without any disruptions
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Why India's first Aadhaar holder is now locked out of welfare schemes
This issue is rooted in deeper structural problems with the Aadhaar-based Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) system, which has suffered from technical glitches, exclusion errors, and lack of accountability
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Digital India Bill: Aadhaar likely to be default e-ID of citizens
The government is also likely to have sweeping powers to track, monitor, intercept, moderate and take down online content under the new law
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Easy address change process in Aadhaar major cause of cyber fraud: Police
Police officers engaged in probing cyber-related offences believe that the simple process of upgrading the addresses of individuals in the Aadhaar data has emerged as one of the biggest causes of cyber fraud. An Aadhaar card holder can get his or her address changed with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which issues Aadhaar cards, in multiple ways. One of those is to download an address-change certificate from the UIDAI's website and upload it after getting it signed by any of the various public authorities, such as an MP, an MLA, a municipal councillor, a gazetted officer of Group "A" and Group "B" and MBBS doctors, among others. In several solved cybercrime cases, the investigators have found that fraudsters used fake rubber stamps and forged signatures of pubic authorities to upgrade their personal details in the Aadhaar database. In some cases, even public authorities put their stamps and signature carelessly, without verifying the credentials of ...
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Authentication of voters in electoral rolls using Aadhaar according to Act
Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a written reply to the Lok Sabha said that data within the voter ID database cannot interact with data across databases linked to Aadhaar thereof
India's Aadhaar ID system delivers benefits but at risk of widespread fraud
Modi's new welfarism rests on Aadhaar. But if there are cracks in the edifice, they need to be acknowledged - not to frighten users away, but to make them more aware
Concept of Aadhaar data vault fallacious; impacting purpose: Sharma
R S Sharma criticised some of the restrictions imposed by the Unique Identification Authority of India over use of the unique ID due to apprehensions around privacy
Aadhaar linking for emails, social media accounts 'dangerous': Madras HC
The court then posted the PIL to August 20 for further hearing
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SC red flags threat of Aadhaar data misuse, fears poll manipulation
A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, hear a clutch of petitions challenging Aadhaar
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Centre will inspect and audit 50,000 Aadhaar enrolment centres
The auditors will check if people are not being overcharged for Aadhaar services
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Aadhaar details of insurance agents to be collected to check duplication
An online database will be created to feed information related to the 12-digit unique identity card
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Aadhaar has minimal data, is totally secure, says Ravi Shankar Prasad
The Modi government accords the highest respect to the judiciary, said IT & Law Minister
 "Aadhaar has minimal data, is totally secure, says Ravi Shankar Prasad")
