The concept of Smart Cities is not new. While the concept has been in discussion in India for many years, it has gained a renewed momentum since 2015 when the Central Govt. announced it’s ‘Smart Cities Mission’ with an aim to transform 100 cities into “smart” cities by 2022.
With Aadhaar becoming pervasive in all walks of life, and unsubstantiated concerns cropping up every day about the security of Aadhaar holders’ personal information, UIDAI has introduced a nifty feature that allows Aadhaar holders to restrict anyone from accessing their demographic / e-KYC data by “locking” their biometrics.
Here’s everything you need to know about “locking” and “unlocking” your Aadhaar biometrics:
Irritated with the constant SMSs from your Bank and Credit Card companies reminding you to map your Aadhaar Number with your Bank and Credit Card Account?
UIDAI through it’s circular issued on 10th Jan, 2018 announced the introduction of Virtual IDs (VID), UID Token and Limited KYC, as an additional layer of protection to assuage privacy and security concerns about Aadhaar numbers being captured and stored by many public and private sector enterprises.
The UIDAI has recently launched a unique Consumer Awareness Initiative which allows Aadhaar Holders to check how many times, and on which dates, their Aadhaar details were being used for performing e-KYC / Authentication transactions.
Last week, the UIDAI published a comprehensive list of 31 FAQs on the Aadhaar Data Vault and we are happy that we had already covered many of these in our previous blog post 🙂
This week, we will be covering some basic Do’s and Don’ts for using the Aadhaar Data Vault at your organisation.
