{"id":30396,"date":"2018-10-26T15:44:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T10:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30396"},"modified":"2018-10-26T15:44:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T10:14:56","slug":"uidai-chief-defends-safety-of-aadhaar-data-before-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/uidai-chief-defends-safety-of-aadhaar-data-before-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"UIDAI chief defends safety of Aadhaar data before SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/uidai-chief-defends-safety-of-aadhaar-data-before-sc\/article23327413.ece\"><strong>UIDAI chief defends safety of Aadhaar data before SC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Ajay Bhushan Pandey, was given the unique opportunity to conduct a PowerPoint presentation in a courtroom of the five-judge Constitution Bench, led by Chief Justice of India DipakMisra.<\/li>\n<li>According to him It would take more than the age of the universe for the fastest computer on earth, or any super-computer, to break one key of Aadhaar encryption<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Data encrypted<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Data was protected by a 2048-bit encryption<\/p>\n<p><strong>Court: Why the UIDAI had blacklisted 49,000 registered operators? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CEO:<\/strong>The CEO replied that these operators were de-registered for corruption, carelessness and harassment of the public.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aadhaar update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CEO:<\/strong> Biometric changes could be updated through a process called \u2018Aadhaar update.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Court:<\/strong>The tribal and people living on the fringes are poor and illiterate. How will they know what to do?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alternatives mechanisms for authentication<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Court<\/strong>: Does UIDAI have any statistics on the number of Aadhaar authentication failures so far?<\/p>\n<p><strong>CEO:<\/strong>Referred to provisions in the Aadhaar (Authentication) Regulations, 2016, to point out that there were alternatives to biometric authentication like demographics and electronic One Time Pin (OTP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UIDAI chief defends safety of Aadhaar data before SC What has happened? CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Ajay Bhushan Pandey, was given the unique opportunity to conduct a PowerPoint presentation in a courtroom of the five-judge Constitution Bench, led by Chief Justice of India DipakMisra. According to him It would take&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/uidai-chief-defends-safety-of-aadhaar-data-before-sc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UIDAI chief defends safety of Aadhaar data before SC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704795732},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}