For the uninitiated, many people recently found UIDAI number in their phones even though they never saved it.
This started a chain of reaction among people, most of whom were confused and slightly freaked out at this alleged breach of privacy.
Seeing the entire thing going out of hand after sufficient media coverage, UIDAI took to Twitter to clarify that it has not asked the service providers to give any such facility and that the mentioned number is outdated.
To this, people replied asking why is the number mentioned on the Aadhaar card and various other websites if it is invalid.
Some people, on the other hand, were just plain confused and angry.
Looks like @GoogleIndia may have something to do with this.
On Rooted phones1. Go to /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts2. Open databases folder3. Open contacts.db with some sqllite browser4. Now, open table, “raw_contact”5. Search for display_name=UIDAI#UIDAI @UIDAI pic.twitter.com/52nOy7QNLK— Sweet Abyss (@TrueAthiest) August 3, 2018
This a social security breach.
Millions of mobile users have an unknown invalid number automatically stored in their contact list as UIDAI. Wasn’t UIDAI using this number earlier? Why was there no public announcement about it being outdated? #UIDAI, Who is responsible then? https://t.co/IvH7XJ95lo— Sanobar (@SanobarFatma) August 3, 2018