"India is pushing Aadhaar, the world's largest digital identity system, deeper into everyday private life through a new app and offline verification support, a move that raises new questions about security, consent, and the broader use of the massive database. Announced in late January by the Indian government-backed Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the changes introduce a new Aadhaar app alongside an offline verification framework that allows individuals to prove their identity without real-time checks against the central Aadhaar database."
"The app allows users to share a limited amount of information, such as confirming that they are over a certain age rather than revealing their full date of birth, with a range of services, like hotels and housing societies to workplaces, platforms, and payment devices, while the existing mAadhaar app continues to operate in parallel for now. Alongside the new app, UIDAI is also expanding Aadhaar's footprint in mobile wallets, with upcoming integration with Google Wallet"
India is deploying a new Aadhaar app plus an offline verification framework to enable identity proofing without real-time checks of the central database. The app can disclose limited attributes, such as age confirmation, instead of full personal details, for use across hotels, housing societies, workplaces, platforms, and payment devices. UIDAI plans integration with Google Wallet, is in talks for Apple Wallet functionality, and already supports Samsung Wallet. Authorities are piloting Aadhaar-based offline verification in policing and hospitality, including Ahmedabad police integration with the PATHIK guest-monitoring platform. Officials present the approach as replacing photocopies and manual ID checks with consent-based offline verification.
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