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Police officers engaged in probing cyber-related offences believe that the simple process of upgrading the addresses of individuals in the Aadhaar data has emerged as one of the biggest causes of cyber fraud. An Aadhaar card holder can get his or her address changed with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which issues Aadhaar cards, in multiple ways. One of those is to download an address-change certificate from the UIDAI's website and upload it after getting it signed by any of the various public authorities, such as an MP, an MLA, a municipal councillor, a gazetted officer of Group "A" and Group "B" and MBBS doctors, among others. In several solved cybercrime cases, the investigators have found that fraudsters used fake rubber stamps and forged signatures of pubic authorities to upgrade their personal details in the Aadhaar database. In some cases, even public authorities put their stamps and signature carelessly, without verifying the credentials of ...

Updated On: 28 Mar 2023 | 9:04 AM IST

Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a written reply to the Lok Sabha said that data within the voter ID database cannot interact with data across databases linked to Aadhaar thereof

Updated On: 03 Aug 2022 | 11:20 PM IST

Modi's new welfarism rests on Aadhaar. But if there are cracks in the edifice, they need to be acknowledged - not to frighten users away, but to make them more aware

Updated On: 24 Jun 2022 | 6:54 AM IST

R S Sharma criticised some of the restrictions imposed by the Unique Identification Authority of India over use of the unique ID due to apprehensions around privacy

Updated On: 24 Nov 2021 | 2:18 PM IST

The court then posted the PIL to August 20 for further hearing

Updated On: 13 Aug 2018 | 10:42 PM IST

A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, hear a clutch of petitions challenging Aadhaar

Updated On: 18 Apr 2018 | 2:04 AM IST

The auditors will check if people are not being overcharged for Aadhaar services

Updated On: 02 Oct 2017 | 12:26 PM IST

An online database will be created to feed information related to the 12-digit unique identity card

Updated On: 16 Jul 2017 | 3:52 PM IST

The Modi government accords the highest respect to the judiciary, said IT & Law Minister

Updated On: 28 May 2017 | 12:13 AM IST