The UIDAI, the government entity which runs the Aadhaar identification project has filed a First Information Report against mobile payment co Qarth technologies and its co-founder Abhinav Srivastava, among others, alleging the app gave out Aadhaar eKYC without permission, reports the Hindu. Qarth was acquired by Ola in March 2016, and Srivastava told the Hindu that they never used Aadhaar for KYC. KYC refers to the "know your customer", or personal identification information that companies take from customers. Aadhaar's eKYC is a norm which allows for digitally sharing this information. A few things to note here: 1. Qarth is no longer operational: Even their domain name Qarth.in has expired. We couldn't find the payment app XPay on the Google Play store. It's not clear whether this refers to another app that Srivastava was launching, or is specific to something that Qarth had done in the past. At the time that it was operational, XPay used to let users transfer money via IMPS, and had no linkage with Aadhaar or AEPS. 2. What was the problem again? How is it, as the UIDAI has alleged, that someone was able to access the eKYC without permission? A report in the New Indian Express says that there was a fault with the National Informatics Centre (NIC), while one in the Deccan Chronicle says that the FIR also named AUA's and KUA's which shared their license key with Qarth. DC quotes Ashok Lenin, Deputy Director with the UIDAI, as saying that "the AUA and KUA were told not to…
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