The Unique Identification Authority of India on 8th November 2021 has published the Aadhaar (Authentication and Offline Verification) Regulations, 2021 in supersession of the Aadhaar (Authentication) Regulations, 2016.
Through this amendment, the authority has provided two types of authentication facilities, namely yes/no authentication facility and e-KYC authentication facility and other types of offline verification facility has been introduced.
The regulations provide a choice to the Aadhaar holder to share the Aadhaar paperless offline e-KYC with the authorised agency for the Aadhaar e-KYC verification process. The authorised agency will match the Aadhaar number and demographic information obtained by the Aadhaar holder with the demographic information in the central database.
The Aadhaar paperless offline e-KYC means a digitally signed document generated by the UIDAI containing the last four digits of the Aadhaar number, demographic data like name, gender, address, date of birth and photograph of the Aadhaar number holder, etc.
Further it also allows the Aadhaar number holders to revoke the consent given to any verification agency for storing their e-KYC data at any time. Upon revocation, the verification agency will delete the e-KYC data and provide the Aadhaar number holder with an acknowledgement of the revocation.
