The programme allows cybersecurity experts to look for possible weaknesses in some of UIDAI’s key digital platforms. If they find genuine security gaps and report them responsibly, they will receive rewards based on the seriousness of the issue.
So far, the massive exercise has helped around 1.2 crore (12 million) school children complete their MBU right in their schools, it said.
The initiative will help residents identify Aadhaar Centres based on the nature of services offered, like adult enrolment, child enrolment or only address and mobile update
This “Invisible Shield” marks a new chapter in India’s digital safety mission — a multi-layered AI defence system that performs crores of computations, harnessing accelerated computing to protect citizens’ trust and data integrity.
This information was given by Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Jitin Prasada in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Last year, around half-a-dozen people died of starvation in Jharkhand because they were denied rations from the Public Distribution System (PDS) shops for failing to possess an Aadhaar card.
The Kendras would also provide appointment-based Aadhaar enrolment and update services to resident through multiple stations working simultaneously, with a few counters dedicated to walk-in customers.
The proposed number for disconnection doing the rounds in the mentioned reports is almost half of the number of mobile phones in the country.
The Aadhaar judgment throws up many questions that deserve answers, writes Sanjeeb Panigrahi.
A circular to this effect has already been issued to the telecom service providers (TSPs), including Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea and others.
