Bhuvnesh Kumar, the new CEO of UIDAI (the unique identification office of India), the management body for the identification of Aadhaar, said in an interview with Mint that the discussion “will now start and accept before the practical course” to replace the almost de-design of Aadhaar from 2016.
“Only the amendment will not be enough – we need a new law that would increase Aadhaar to speed through the Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP Act), 2023,” Kumar said in his first media interview since the takeover of UIDAI 3 January.
When Kumar, who is also another secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity), stated that the current AADHAAR law is quite restrictive and must also be another secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity), pointed out that the DPDP law was not restrictive.
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“The use of Aadhaar has been limited by legal restrictions and verification requirements. It is associated with benefits and subsidies, but has much greater potential than that,” he added.
Certainly, the current Aadhaar Act was adopted almost ten years ago and therefore does not meet the rules under the DPDP Act. This includes data sharing, data transfer and many other regulations.
It is not only a legal revision of Aadhaar, which has more than 1.4 billion registered individuals in the government database, but also the potential expansion of its range of use.
“In accordance with the law, we are also expanding the scope of the use of Aadhaar in businesses, while minimizing the risk that the identity proof has been abused by entities,” Kumar added.
Uidai also produces a new AADHAAR application that makes it easy to verify the individual’s identity without the need for an active Internet connection.
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“It is not just the benefits of the Aadhaar function of QR scanning can be used to verify the authenticity of the person in accordance with the government law without involving third parties,” Kumar said.
He added that other areas where Aadhaar can be integrated into compliance with the new law and AADHAAR applications include verifying parents’ consent on social media platforms, as ordered by the rule that the technological platforms they want.
Technological platforms may decide from the perspective of how they want to comply with the verifiable consent of parents for minors online platforms and Aadhaar is not mandatory for him. For example, companies can accept a voluntary form to disclose the age of the on -board minors.
The key document is also on the radar. “Uidai also sets up a data sharing tool that businesses can buy from us. It will help businesses automate identity verification without human intervention or people photographing your document that can later be misused,” Kumar said.
On April 9, the IT Union Ashwini Vaishnaw mentioned the need for the “New Testament” for Aadhaara for the first time-calling the most inducing the Indian government identification document in India is “harmonized to the DPDP law that maintains human interest in the center”.
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The twelve -digit identification document today is the most used government identity for which Uidai attracts 75,000 applications daily for the new edition of Aadhaar. According to Kumar, 99.5% of adults in India are already under Aadhaar’s cloisters and covers 1.41 billion records in Aadhaar database.
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Political consultants and participating parties believe that this step is essential, but certain warranties need to be considered.
Isha Suri, Head of Research for Technology Policy and Privacy in Think-Tank, Center for the Internet and Company (CIS), was looking for an extensive process of public consultation to understand the gaps that the new Aadhaar law should deal with. Kumar said on his part that public consultation would be part of the legislation process that “will have right time and time”.
Suri added: “Instead of retrospectively looking at which areas of the law would have to be completed, as technological and technological adoption of the private sector develops, robust consultations with civil society and private entities can help create a law that better solves the privacy of users and the effectiveness of Aadhaar.”
The new Aadhaar Act will seem that AADHAAR data verification will be more trouble -free through new sharing mechanisms, reducing the number of people on Wednesday with access to human data and others.
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Kumar, a career bureaucrat, which joined public services with Uttar Pradesh cadre, wants to demonstrate Aadhaar as a smooth identification document that can help verify identity and transaction, while minimizing the number of hands through which data is transferred.
“The Only Time We Share Data With Entities is in Requests for E-Know Your Customer. Kumar Said, Adding That All of this is Expected to Widen Aadhaar’s Scope in Fields Such as Hospitality, Financial Services, ETc.
It is also a question of minimizing the amount of shared data with entities and reducing the number of intermediaries in the data sharing process.
The emphasis on the fact that data storage and storage, as defined by DPDP law, is “principles based”, said Kumar that for Aadhaar, any individual that challenges data holding. In the case of any resolution, the data protection Council-the deducted entity according to the Indian Personal Data Protection Act can be drawn and rule on the basis of the case.
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However, identity fraudsters doubled in attempts to secure data violation data by generating the identification of Aadhaar Lookalikes through Artificial Intelligence platforms such as ChatgPT Openai. Such identification, advocates of personal data protection underlined, represent a key call for information sanctity when they are presented to businesses.
Kumar stressed that it is “impossible” to generate Aadhaar from any AI engine. “What generates is a look similar to the image of something that is replicated,” he said, adding that it will not work because there is no support biometric.
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