It was told that any Aadhaar card holder can go to the authority’s website and remove your virtual ID. Through this, many other works can be done including verification of SIM without sharing Aadhaar number. It will be accepted from March 1, 2018. Approving virtual ID for all agencies using Aadhaar for verification will be mandatory from June 1, 2018. But it will take time for this entire process to be implemented. Meanwhile, you can protect your Aadhaar number and Aadhaar data in this way.
(Read: How to find the status of Aadhaar card)
Check history of Aadhaar Authentication
If you want, you can also know when and when your Aadhaar data has been used for authentication. Gadgets 360 gave detailed information about this process. However, let us know that for this you should go to the Authority History page of UIDAI. Enter your Aadhaar number here and along with the Capcha code seen in the picture together. After this, click on Generate OTP. You will get oneTime password on your phone through SMS. On the next page, UIDAI will get the facility to filter different authentication requests. You can apply filter in biometric, demographic and other ways. You can also check here between any particular dates. Its limit is 6 months. The last field is from OTP. Add OTP here and click on submit. After this, you will be able to see the detailed details of Aadhaar Authentication Request. All these information will be found here. However, you will not know which company or agency used Aadhaar data for authentication.
Use virtual Aadhaar ID from March 1
Virtual ID will have a 16 -digit number with biometrics. This will provide the consumer’s name, address and photo to the mobile company or any other authorized agency, which is sufficient for verification. Virtual ID will be based on the Aadhaar number of any person. Officials said that any cardholder can make any virtual ID. As soon as the new virtual ID is created, the old one will automatically be canceled. Through this, many other works can be done including verification of SIM without sharing Aadhaar number.
Lock on base biometric data online
Many such cases have also come up where people have accused of misuse of Aadhaar biometric authentication. There are many people who have not even used their Aadhaar card for several days, but they have received an email from UIDAI that their data has been accessed through biometric authentication. You can avoid this situation if you go to the UIDAI server and lock the biometric information. You can also unlock it before using it. You have to do this.
Do not share information related to Aadhaar with anyone
Always keep in mind that no government institution or bank ever asks you information about confidential and personal information like Aadhaar number through phone or email. If you get such a phone or email, never make public information about your Aadhaar.
Remember that you do not have to carry a copy of Aadhaar everywhere. If you want, you can keep the MAidhar app, or download the Aadhaar card copy.
Use of biometric data carefully
It is possible that while buying Reliance Jio SIM, you would have shared your thumb mark with a scanner. In the coming time, there will be a system of similar fingerprint scan in more places based on Aadhaar card. If you are not fully convinced about a scanner, then we will suggest that you do not give the thumb mark.
