The government has withdrawn a statement "with immediate effect" that asked people not to share photocopies of Aadhaar over misuse risks. It withdrew the statement "in view of the possibility of the misinterpretation of the press release", the government said today.
The Unique Identification Authority of India, or UIDAI, in the earlier statement had suggested the use of masked Aadhaar, which shows only the last four digits of the document, and not to share photocopies of the unmasked document with random organisations.
