{"id":992507,"date":"2026-02-16T08:36:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992507"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:08:30","slug":"aadhaar-card-update-aadhaar-to-reportedly-get-privacy-upgrade-with-photo-and-secure-qr-code-replacing-personal-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/16\/aadhaar-card-update-aadhaar-to-reportedly-get-privacy-upgrade-with-photo-and-secure-qr-code-replacing-personal-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Aadhaar card update: Aadhaar to reportedly get privacy upgrade, with photo and secure QR code replacing personal details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is rumoured to be exploring a redesign of the physical Aadhaar card in a bid to improve privacy and combat rising data misuse. Under the proposed changes, future Aadhaar cards could feature only the holder\u2019s photograph and a secure, encrypted QR code on the front. All sensitive personal information, like name, address, date of birth, and the 12-digit Aadhaar number, is rumoured to be removed from the card entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is rumoured to be exploring a redesign of the physical Aadhaar card in a bid to improve privacy and combat rising data misuse. Under the proposed changes, future Aadhaar cards could feature only the holder\u2019s photograph and a secure, encrypted QR code on the front. All sensitive personal information, like name, address, date of birth, and the 12-digit Aadhaar number, is rumoured to be removed from the card entirely.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992507","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=992507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}