New Aadhaar -Legislation in the works to align with the Privacy Act on Data

Copyright © HT Digital Streams Limit all rights reserved. News The current Aadhaar law was issued almost a decade ago and therefore does not comply with the rules under the DPDP Act. Summary Uidai is also making a new Aadhaar app that facilitates the verification of an individual’s identity without an active internet connection. New -Delhi: As the notice of the Privacy of India approaches the notice, another law that is behind a unique identification number for the citizens is prepared for review to align it with the new Privacy Act, an experts of the sliding industry said it was in arrears but needed a greater consultation. Bhuvnesh Kumar, the new CEO of Uidai (Unique Identification Authority of India), the governing body behind Aadhaar identification, said in a conversation with coin that discussions ‘will now start the course of legislation’ and replace the Aadhaar Act, 2016. (DPDP Act), 2023, “Kumar said in his first media interview since he took the lead on Uidai on January 3. Restrictive and must be changed. It is linked to benefits and subsidies, but has a lot more potential than that, ‘he added. To be sure, the current Aadhaar law was issued almost a decade ago and therefore does not comply with the rules under the DPDP Act. This includes data section, data transfer and a wealth of other regulations. At stake is not only a legal overhaul of Aadhaar, which has more than 1.4 billion registered individuals in the government database, but also a possible expansion of its use. “In accordance with the law, we also expand the extent of the use of Aadhaar at businesses, while minimizing the risk of the identity document abused by entities,” Kumar added. Uidai is also making a new Aadhaar app that facilitates the verification of an individual’s identity without an active internet connection. Read it | ‘Firms have had enough time to follow DPDP rules” It is not just for benefits Non-Baadhaar’s QR-Scan function, for example, can be used to verify the authenticity of a person in accordance with government laws by involving a business without third parties, “says Kumar. He added that other areas where Aadhaar could be integrated in accordance with the new law and the Aadhaar app, the verification of parental consent on social media platforms, as instructed by the DPDP law’s soon-signed rules, if technology platforms so desired. For perspective, technology platforms can decide how they want to meet the verifiable parent’s consent for minor users of online platforms, and Aadhaar is not mandatory for it. For example, businesses can accept a voluntary disclosure form for minor users on board. Security of the important document is also on the radar. “Uidai is also setting up an instrument for data sharing that businesses can buy from us. It will help businesses automate identity verification without human intervention or people who take pictures of your document that can be abused later,” Kumar said. On April 9, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw named the need for “a new law” for Aadhaar for the first time-which has the most issued government identification document for the DPDP act in the harmonized government act to hold human interest in the center. Read it | DPDP concession rules raise concerns about parental consent, national security checks the 12-digit identification document is the most commonly used government identity today, for which Uidai attracts 75,000 applications per day for new Aadhaar issues. As per kumar, 99.5% of adults in India are already under Aadhaar’s ambit, covering 1.41 billion entries in the Aadhaar database. Timely slider policy consultants and stakeholders believe that the move is needed, but that certain precautions should be considered. Isha Suri, research leader for technology policy and privacy of data at Think Tank, Center for Internet and Society (CIS), sought an extensive public consultation process to understand gaps to address a new Aadhaar law. Kumar said on his part that public consultation would be part of the legislative process, which “will take its passage and time”. Suri added: “Instead of retrospectively looking at which areas of the law should be filled in as the technology of technology and the adoption of the private sector develops, a robust consultation with civil society and private entities can help frame a law that better address the privacy of the user and the effectiveness of Aadhaar.” The new Aadhaar Act will be more seamless after verification of Aadhaar data by reducing new division mechanisms, the number of people in the middle with access to a person’s own data, and more. Read also | Concipitation Mandate KYC, detailed product lists, secure payments for e-commerce platforms Kumar, a career bureaucrat who joined the 1995 Uttar Pradesh cadre, are eager to display Aadhaar as a seamless identification document that can help reduce identity and transaction. ‘The only time we share data with entities is in requests for e-ken your client (KYC). Aadhaar is the only document that can be verified by a cellphone itself that Internet connection or a specialized device is needed. This increases the scope of using the document, ‘Kumar said it all is added. The minimization of the amount of data shared with entities and reduces the number of intermediaries in the data division process. Kumar said that any individual who will challenge the tenure of data retention has the power to first ask the business that challenges the data that the storage and retention of data, such as defined by the DPDP Act, is “principle-based”. In the case of no resolution, the Council for Data Protection-an empowered entity under India’s Privacy Act and rules per case. And read | However, the collateral damage in the RBI’s oppression of loan frenzy, KYC, has doubled an identity principle with attempts to violate data security by generating Aadhaar identification appearance through artificial intelligence platforms, such as Openai’s chatgpt. Such identification, privacy lawyers underlined, posed an important challenge for the holiness of information in the business world when submitted to businesses. Kumar has underlined that it is “impossible” to generate an Aadhaar of any AI engine. “What it raises is an equal image of something that is repeated,” he said, adding that it won’t work, because there is no supportive biometric. Catch all the business news, market news, news reports and latest news updates on Live Mint. Download the Mint News app to get daily market updates. More Topics #Adhaar Mint Specials