{"id":988467,"date":"2026-01-29T08:39:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988467"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:15:16","slug":"aadhaar-app-can-be-used-for-age-verification-under-dpdp-act-without-oversharing-data-it-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/aadhaar-app-can-be-used-for-age-verification-under-dpdp-act-without-oversharing-data-it-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Aadhaar app can be used for age verification under DPDP Act without oversharing data: IT Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UIDAI has launched a new Aadhaar app that can be used for age verification under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act without sharing any additional data, a senior government official said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the launch of the app, the Ministry of Electronics and IT Secretary S Krishnan said the government has amended Swik Rules or the Aadhaar Authentication for Good Governance (Social Welfare, Innovation, Knowledge) Rules, 2020 to enable private entities to provide service by using Aadhaar authentication on secure basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UIDAI has launched a new Aadhaar app that can be used for age verification under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act without sharing any additional data, a senior government official said on Wednesday. Speaking at the launch of the app, the Ministry of Electronics and IT Secretary S Krishnan said the government has amended Swik Rules or the Aadhaar Authentication for Good Governance (Social Welfare, Innovation, Knowledge) Rules, 2020 to enable private entities to provide service by using Aadhaar authentication on secure basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}