Aadhaar data fully safe and secure, no breach possible, says UIDAI
India | January 04, 2018 15:31 IST"The Aadhaar data, including biometric information, is fully safe and secure," the authority said in a statement.
"The Aadhaar data, including biometric information, is fully safe and secure," the authority said in a statement.
The government on Tuesday issued a single number for Interactive Voice Response (IVR) services to facilitate the process of Aadhaar linking.
"People are dying due to Aadhaar. Is this something Modi is proud of? Aadhaar was pushed as a Money bill by this govt, all the amendments suggested by Rajya Sabha were ignored. We have now landed up here", Yechury tweeted.
Sushil Kumar Singh raised the issue in the Zero Hour and asked the Centre to consider the matter seriously and resolve the problem.
Select users across India can see a message encouraging them to register on social networking site with their Aadhaar name on sign up page so that friends can find them easily.
Oil ministry claimed that Rs 167 crore of LPG subsidies had been deposited in the accounts of Airtel Payments Bank without the customers knowing that such accounts had been opened.
Jaitley further said that the issue of 'right to privacy' was "hopefully" settled by the Supreme Court judgement
Subsidies totaling over Rs. 190 crore had flown into the 'unsolicited' accounts opened by Airtel Payments Bank.
The UIDAI has temporarily barred Bharti Airtel and Airtel Payments Bank from conducting Aadhaar-based SIM verification of mobile customers using eKYC process as well as e-KYC of payments bank clients.
Senior advocate and Congress leader Kapil Sibal, who appeared for Ramesh, said the government wrongly decided to term Aadhaar bill as a money bill and the issue needed to be debated and decided by the court.
The Supreme Court also ruled new bank accounts can be opened without Aadhaar but applicant needs to submit proof that he has applied for the card.
The government has already issued 139 notifications mandating the linking of Unique Identification Number with various schemes including rural job guarantee, old age pensions, provident fund and the Jan Dhan Yojana.
The apex court is hearing the pleas of petitioners pressing for an extension of interim relief on the mandatory linking of Aadhaar to various schemes, including bank accounts and mobile numbers.
The apex court had on December 7 said that a Constitution bench will hear the various plea for interim relief on the mandatory linking of Aadhaar with bank accounts and the Permanent Account Number.
The petitioners are pressing for an extension of interim relief on the mandatory linking of Aadhaar to various schemes, including bank accounts and mobile numbers.
How to book a Jio phone was the second most asked question in India, while year-end craze 'bitcoins' made it to the third spot.
The notification by the Department of Revenue in the finance ministry effectively paves the way for extending the deadline for mandatory quoting of Aadhaar for activities like the opening of a bank account.
Centre's directive making linkage of Aadhaar mandatory for mobile numbers and bank accounts has been challenged in SC on grounds that it infringes upon an individual's right to privacy.
The total value of energy subsidies from the central government declined from Rs 216,408 crore to Rs 133,841 crore between 2014 and 2016.
The UIDAI said it had taken note of the breach and got the data removed from those websites.
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