UIDAI Proposes Offline Aadhaar Verification, Biometric Lock And More In New Draft Regulation

The Unique Identification Authority of India that administers Aadhaar has proposed to allow people to permanently lock their biometrics and introduce a mechanism for offline Aadhaar verification, using a system called Aadhaar Number Capture Service Token or ANCS Token. The UIDAI has, in its Draft Aadhaar Regulations, said that it may enable an Aadhaar number holder to permanently lock his biometrics and temporarily unlock it when needed for biometric authentication. The new Aadhaar regulations will also define an offline verification seeking entity or OVSE that will undertake offline verification for an Aadhaar card holder. ?An OVSE may use the offline verification facility provided by the Authority for obtaining the offline Aadhaar data of the Aadhaar number holder only for the purpose specified to the Aadhaar number holder at the time of verification,?