Aadhaar Card Safety Tips: Don't be careless while sharing Aadhaar, Here's expert's advice

Aadhaar Card Safety Tips: Aadhaar is used as the identity by every citizen of the country.  Over the past decade, it has become the preferred ID for all. It is required for every important work these days. So, people should be very careful while sharing Aadhar details as small negligence in this will lead to the leak of personal information.  Zee Business brings the advice of UIDAI, Niti Aayog, and Meity, Finance Secretary regarding Aadhar and its safety tips.

Recently, the government issued an advisory on sharing Aadhaar’s photocopy to avoid the misuse of the same. According to an official press statement, the ministry of electronics and IT urged people not to share photocopy of Aadhaar with any organisations as it can be misused. Alternatively, the government requested to use a masked Aadhaar that displays only the last 4 digits of your Aadhaar number.

Here's what experts said on Aadhaar Safety:

UIDAI CEO Saurabh Garg's advice regarding Aadhaar

• Aadhar has been a huge success for DBT.
• After a decade, Aadhaar has gradually reached every citizen.
• Apart from this, there are many areas where it is very important to provide Aadhaar.
• We should effectively leverage the use of Aadhaar to make our lifestyle easier.
• Aadhaar has become the preferred ID for everyone in the last decade.
• Identification should be done without using the internet. This needs attention.
• In the next decade, we have to pay special attention to 5 things to increase the growth of Aadhaar.
• In the next 10 years, we will focus on building residency centricity, increasing the use of Aadhaar, and strengthening authenticity and credibility.
• We will also focus on upgrading technology and cyber security and international outreach.

MEITY Secretary Alkesh Kumar Sharma said

• There have been instances of photoshopping of Aadhaar, so every citizen should be more cautious about it.
• We will soon bring the National Data Protection Bill, which will help in keeping many things like Aadhaar secure.
• Aadhaar 1.0 has done a lot of good work, in such a situation, it is necessary to evaluate what's been done & what needs to be done now

Finance Secretary TV Somanathan's opinion

• Aadhar helped to weed out ineligible beneficiaries.
• There is a need to maximize the potential of Aadhar.
• Aadhar is our invention, this is something that we haven't copied from the West.

What does NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said?

• Aadhaar has played a transformative role in the country.
• Aadhar is the bedrock of service delivery, as well as ensures DBT.
• Many countries want to replicate Aadhar.
• UPI has performed much better in 4-5 years than MasterCard in 40 years.