UIDAI slams Aadhaar 'fear-mongering', says helpline number can't steal data
The UIDAI
said vested interests had misused Google's "inadvertent" act that led
to appearance of its old helpline number in the contact list of several users
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Current Affairs News:
The UIDAI
on Sunday said vested interests misused Google's "inadvertent" act
around it old helpline number to create fear and tarnish the image of Aadhaar
while emphasising that a number stored in contact list cannot steal data from a
mobile phone.
The
Unique
Identity Authority of India (UIDAI) said rumour mongers attempted to
tarnish the image of Aadhaar for a Google's inadvertent act that led to the
appearance of its old helpline number 1800 300 1947 in the contact list of
several mobile phone users.
"UIDAI
condemns the vested interests who tried to misuse Google's
"inadvertent" act as an opportunity to spread rumours and go around
fear-mongering against Aadhaar," the authority said in a statement.
Last
week, a French security expert who goes under the pseudonym Elliot Alderson and
describes himself as the "worst nightmare" of the UIDAI, in a tweet
had raised alarm on the presence of a UIDAI contact number in contact list of
mobile phone users without their consent.
His
tweet scared many mobile phone users on the appearance of the UIDAI's old
helpline number in their contacts even though they did not add it.
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