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Protect Your Aadhaar Card: Step-by-Step Guide To Locking It Online
When you lock your Aadhar card, it secures your biometric data and other personal information, preventing unauthorised individuals from misusing your Aadhar card.
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UIDAI to Prompt Aadhaar Card Holders to Update Biometrics Once Every 10 Years, Says Official
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) will encourage people to voluntarily update their biometric data every 10 years. This could drive people to update their Aadhaar over time. Aadhaar card holders above the age of 70 years will be excluded from this. At present, children aged between five and 15 years are required to update their biome...
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Voluntarily Update Aadhaar Biometrics Once Every 10 Years: Official
Aadhaar custodian UIDAI will encourage people to voluntarily update their biometric data every 10 years, according to official sources.
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How To Lock/Unlock Aadhaar Card Biometrics
Aadhaar Card: Once engaged, the Aadhaar biometrics lock dismisses any attempts to authenticate an individual's identity using the data, according to UIDAI
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India Among Top Five Worst Countries for Privacy of People’s Biometric Data, Report Claims
India is the fifth worst country after China, Malaysia, Pakistan, and the US in terms of extensive and invasive use of biometric data, according to a new report from Britain-based tech research firm Comparitech on Wednesday.
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Aadhaar For NRIs On Arrival Without Waiting: Nirmala Sitharaman In Budget
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in the Union Budget that non-resident Indians (NRIs) may get Aadhaar cards on arrival, without the mandatory waiting period.
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How To Lock And Unlock Aadhaar Biometrics
UIDAI Aadhaar card lock: Once engaged, the Aadhaar biometrics lock dismisses any attempts to authenticate the identity of the individual using the data, according to the UIDAI website. The UIDAI requires the user to possess the Aadhaar-registered mobile number to be able to log in on its self-service portal, uidai.gov.in.
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Tamil Nadu Launches Door-Step Aadhaar Enrollment For Children Below 5
The Tamil Nadu government has launched a scheme to provide the door-step registration for Aadhaar for children under the age of five. The scheme, worth Rs 13.61 crore, will help collect the biometric data of children from their homes to issue them their unique Aadhaar number, an official statement said.
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Aadhaar Data To Identify Dead Bodies? Top Court Refuses To Hear Plea
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking a direction to the Centre and Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to use Aadhaar biometrics of unidentified dead bodies to trace their identity.
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After Aadhaar Verdict, Need For Law On Privacy: US Experts
US-based experts have said that the Supreme Court verdict on Aadhaar biometric system has struck a balance between the need for a foundational identity and measures to limit its use, but stressed that the government now urgently needs to pass a legislation on data sharing and privacy.
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Foreign Media On Landmark Verdict On Aadhaar, World's Largest ID Scheme
India's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the validity of a giant and controversial government program to collect and store the biometric data of its billion-plus citizens, but placed new limits on how the data can be used and stored.
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Aadhaar Verdict: What's Allowed (PAN-linking) And What Isn't
The Supreme Court today said that the Aadhaar scheme which collects biometric data from every citizen and assigns a national identity card to them does not violate the right to privacy and is constitutionally valid. The government, which has been arguing for the mandatory use of Aadhaar for all major transactions, has said that it holds that privac...
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"Better To Be Unique Than Best": Top Court Upholds Aadhaar, With Limits
The Aadhaar card empowers those on the margins of society, which far outweighs its flaws, the Supreme Court said today, upholding the validity of the giant national ID scheme but with limits on how biometric data collected from more than one billion citizens can be used. In a four-one majority judgement, the court cleared the use of Aadhaar for acc...
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Aadhaar, World's Largest Digital ID Project, Sued For Data Leaks
The Delhi High Court has agreed to hear a plea seeking damages from the operator of world's largest biometric database for alleged failure to adopt adequate security measures that led to data leaks.
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Core Biometrics Under Aadhar Totally Safe: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Asserting that core biometrics under Aadhaar were safe and secure, the government today said the use of the unique identification mechanism has ensured savings of over Rs 90,000 crore by eliminating middlemen.
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Protect Your Aadhaar Card: Step-by-Step Guide To Locking It Online
When you lock your Aadhar card, it secures your biometric data and other personal information, preventing unauthorised individuals from misusing your Aadhar card.
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UIDAI to Prompt Aadhaar Card Holders to Update Biometrics Once Every 10 Years, Says Official
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) will encourage people to voluntarily update their biometric data every 10 years. This could drive people to update their Aadhaar over time. Aadhaar card holders above the age of 70 years will be excluded from this. At present, children aged between five and 15 years are required to update their biome...
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Voluntarily Update Aadhaar Biometrics Once Every 10 Years: Official
Aadhaar custodian UIDAI will encourage people to voluntarily update their biometric data every 10 years, according to official sources.
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How To Lock/Unlock Aadhaar Card Biometrics
Aadhaar Card: Once engaged, the Aadhaar biometrics lock dismisses any attempts to authenticate an individual's identity using the data, according to UIDAI
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India Among Top Five Worst Countries for Privacy of People’s Biometric Data, Report Claims
India is the fifth worst country after China, Malaysia, Pakistan, and the US in terms of extensive and invasive use of biometric data, according to a new report from Britain-based tech research firm Comparitech on Wednesday.
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Aadhaar For NRIs On Arrival Without Waiting: Nirmala Sitharaman In Budget
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in the Union Budget that non-resident Indians (NRIs) may get Aadhaar cards on arrival, without the mandatory waiting period.
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How To Lock And Unlock Aadhaar Biometrics
UIDAI Aadhaar card lock: Once engaged, the Aadhaar biometrics lock dismisses any attempts to authenticate the identity of the individual using the data, according to the UIDAI website. The UIDAI requires the user to possess the Aadhaar-registered mobile number to be able to log in on its self-service portal, uidai.gov.in.
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Tamil Nadu Launches Door-Step Aadhaar Enrollment For Children Below 5
The Tamil Nadu government has launched a scheme to provide the door-step registration for Aadhaar for children under the age of five. The scheme, worth Rs 13.61 crore, will help collect the biometric data of children from their homes to issue them their unique Aadhaar number, an official statement said.
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Aadhaar Data To Identify Dead Bodies? Top Court Refuses To Hear Plea
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking a direction to the Centre and Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to use Aadhaar biometrics of unidentified dead bodies to trace their identity.
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After Aadhaar Verdict, Need For Law On Privacy: US Experts
US-based experts have said that the Supreme Court verdict on Aadhaar biometric system has struck a balance between the need for a foundational identity and measures to limit its use, but stressed that the government now urgently needs to pass a legislation on data sharing and privacy.
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Foreign Media On Landmark Verdict On Aadhaar, World's Largest ID Scheme
India's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the validity of a giant and controversial government program to collect and store the biometric data of its billion-plus citizens, but placed new limits on how the data can be used and stored.
-
Aadhaar Verdict: What's Allowed (PAN-linking) And What Isn't
The Supreme Court today said that the Aadhaar scheme which collects biometric data from every citizen and assigns a national identity card to them does not violate the right to privacy and is constitutionally valid. The government, which has been arguing for the mandatory use of Aadhaar for all major transactions, has said that it holds that privac...
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"Better To Be Unique Than Best": Top Court Upholds Aadhaar, With Limits
The Aadhaar card empowers those on the margins of society, which far outweighs its flaws, the Supreme Court said today, upholding the validity of the giant national ID scheme but with limits on how biometric data collected from more than one billion citizens can be used. In a four-one majority judgement, the court cleared the use of Aadhaar for acc...
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Aadhaar, World's Largest Digital ID Project, Sued For Data Leaks
The Delhi High Court has agreed to hear a plea seeking damages from the operator of world's largest biometric database for alleged failure to adopt adequate security measures that led to data leaks.
-
Core Biometrics Under Aadhar Totally Safe: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Asserting that core biometrics under Aadhaar were safe and secure, the government today said the use of the unique identification mechanism has ensured savings of over Rs 90,000 crore by eliminating middlemen.
