In a significant move to curb misuse of customers' personal details, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has introduced a new rule making it mandatory for private entities to register themselves with the authority. The move will discourage hotels and other private entities to store physical photocopies of customers in the process of verifying their identities.

“The new rule has been approved by the authority and will be notified soon. It will mandate registration of offline verification- seeking entities like hotels, event organisers. The objective is to discourage paper-based Aadhaar verification,” Bhuvnesh Kumar quoted as saying in a PTI report.

What is the aim behind this new rule?

While talking to PTI news agency, UIDAI CEO Kumar said that the act of taking the phot

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