The UIDAI appears to have removed the option to see demographic authentication log in the authentication log history facility where Aadhaar number holders can check where their number has been authenticated and whether the authentication was successful. This is significant, because the previous logs contained notifications of demographic authentications and several people had posted on social media about unknown demographic authentications being shown in their logs just before this change was implemented. https://twitter.com/DataVyuh/status/956060662484144129 According to the UIDAI website, demographic authentications are described as: Demographic authentication: The Aadhaar number and demographic information of the Aadhaar number holder obtained from the Aadhaar number holder is matched with the demographic information of the Aadhaar number holder in the CIDR. An obvious security flaw in this is that a photocopy of any Aadhaar card can be used to authenticate as the holder of the Aadhaar number, as demographic authentication merely matches the data on the card against the data in the CIDR record. The authentication history log was evidence of the demographic data being done and in the event of unrecognized or unauthorized authentications, the Aadhaar holder could raise a complaint with the UIDAI. Now, with the information on the demographic authentications concealed, the Aadhaar holders have no way of knowing if their demographic information has been misused to impersonate them. Where previously, the facility offered logs of the following kinds of authentication: All, Demographic, Biometric, OTP, Demographic & Biometric, Biometric & OTP and Demographic &OTP, all logs showing demographic authentications are no longer…
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