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How To Lock Your Aadhaar Biometric Online?

Locking you Aadhaar protects you from hackers and online frauds

In this digital world, securing your Aadhaar card is more important than ever. Protecting your biometric data prevents unauthorized access to your personal information like fingerprints, iris and facial recognition data.

Locking you Aadhaar protects you from hackers and criminals. Also, the Aadhaar is being linked to several documents like PAN cards, bank accounts voter id and mobile numbers.

Hence locking it is necessary.

Once you activate biometric lock, no one can use your biometric data your consent. You can lock your Aadhaar biometric online by following these simple steps:

You will first have to generate Aadhaar virtual ID (VID). For that, go to UIDAIs official website and click on VID generator. You can then go ahead with locking your Aadhaar biometric online.

Step 1: Go to UIDAIs myAadhaar portal.

Step 2: Click on Lock/unlock Aadhaar.

Step 3 : Read the instructions carefully and click on Next to proceed.

Step 4: Enter your Virtual ID, full name, pin code and the captcha code.

Step 5 : Then click on Send OTP.

Step 6: Enter the OTP that is sent to you registered mobile number. Your Aadhaar biometrics will be locked.

This article is authored by Suchithra DK as part of internship program with Deccan Chronicle.

( Source : Deccan Chronicle )
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