India launches a new aadhar app: Share only what is required

For years, Aadhaar trained us to over-share. A photocopy at every hotel. The full number for a SIM. Your whole profile for one small check. Instead of handing over a full Aadhaar profile, a person can now reveal just their name, photo, age, or address depending on what a service actually needs. It adds face authentication as an extra verification layer, lets users lock and unlock their fingerprint, iris, and face biometrics from the phone, and shows an authentication history of when News Source: Republic World and where their Aadhaar was used. It supports up to five profiles per device for families, allows mobile-number and address updates without a trip to an enrolment centre, and crossed 21 million downloads within three months of launch. This is a real win for privacy and dignity. Control is being handed back to the user. The test is who gets left out. Face scans have failed acidattack survivors and the visually impaired. Let’s see if the new app remembers everyone.

Let’s see if the new app remembers everyone.