The Minister of State in Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has cancelled 598,999 duplicate Aadhaars. He explained the steps taken by UIDAI to address the duplicate Aadhaar generation issue.
The minister said, “The demographic matching mechanism has been further strengthened, biometric matching of all new enrollments is ensured and 'face' has been included as a new modality (in addition to fingerprint and iris) for de-duplication.”
Chandrasekhar added, “UIDAI has served notices to the owners of the websites concerned to restrain themselves from providing such unauthorised services by any means, and also to hosting service providers to block defiant websites with immediate effect.”
Since January 2022, as many as 11 websites have been stopped from offering such services. Apart from de-duplication, facial recognition in Aadhaar is also being used for authenticating pension verification details. Over 100,000 pensioners have been authenticated by this technology as of now.
The developments come as UIDAI has stepped up its actions to make Aadhaar more secure. The department announced a programme, under which it will create a panel of 20 of the top white hat hackers to expose any vulnerabilities in its Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR).
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