INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Authors: Jordan
The Unique Identification
Authority of India (UIDAI) on Thursday said its enrolment software is armed with necessary safeguards and checks to protect against any
reports of alleged tampering of the Aadhaar enrolment software and being sold in the black market, which purportedly bypasses operators'
comes to ensuring security and safety of its processes, UIDAI said that any operator found to be violating its stipulated processes or those
indulging in any type of fraudulent or corrupt practices, are blocked, blacklisted and also face stiff financial penalty of up to Rs 1 lakh
As on date more than 50,000 operators have been blacklisted," the UIDAI said
The UIDAI said its system matches all the biometric, that is all 10 fingerprints and both irides or irises, of a resident enrolling for
the resident himself or herself gives his or her biometric
processes followed by it, UIDAI said prior to processing of the enrolment or updation activity, the operator's biometric and other
parameters are also checked
Only once all checks are found to be successful, enrolment or updation request of resident is further processed, UIDAI added.On Wednesday,
EPFO or Employees' Provident Fund Organisation said there was no data leakage from its data centre
The clarification from EPFO came after reports suggested the retirement fund body had in March informed the Ministry of Electronics and IT
of a "data theft".(With PTI inputs)
