Aadhaar is one of the important identity proofs for Indian citizen, this identity accepted for any government verification. But this identifies data that should be more secure because this is included your biometric data, it means your fingerprint and eye scanned data. Sometimes people have not used the Aadhaar card for verification but they received the email from UIDAI website, someone accessed through biometric authentication. This is really issues about Aadhaar card security, you can avoid this by locking your biometric information in UIDAI websites. This means biometric data can’t be accessed anyone till whenever you unlock again in the UIDAI web server for verification, after verification you must lock it again for security.
 


Following setups guide you to how you can lock your Aadhaar biometric in UIDAI website through online:

 

  1. Open UIDAI website
  2. Enter your 12-digit Aadhaar number
  3. Then enter the security code based on the image number
  4. Click to Generate OTP
  5. One-time password will be received through SMS to your registered phone number
  6. Enter the OTP and click to Verify
  7. Now select Enable biometric locking
  8. Click Enable to lock the Aadhaar biometric

enable biometric locking
 

Now your Aadhaar biometric will be locked. If you want to disable the lock, uncheck Enable biometric locking and click to Disable.

 

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