Times of India: Pune: Saturday, February 03, 2018.
E-governance
expert Anupam Saraph is not convinced with the Unique Identification Authority
of India's (UIDAI) response to his RTI application, seeking to know the
difference between "identification" and "authentication".
The UIDAI's
reply on Thursday to the RTI application dated December 31, 2017, filed by
Saraph, mentioned "authentication" as defined under the Aadhaar Act,
2016.
"I had
sought to know the difference between 'identification' of an individual and
'authentication' of biometric or demographic data by UIDAI. The reply did not
mention any difference between the two concepts. If UIDAI is the unique
identification authority, it should have a definition of 'identification' and
'authentication'," Saraph said.
"Definition
of 'authentication' is available in regulation 2 (c) of Aadhaar Act. One should
refer to section 8 (2) (a) of Aadhaar Act and regulation 6 of Aadhaar Act in
case of e-KYC," the UIDAI reply stated.
Bombay high
court lawyer Yogesh Mehta said "identification" and
"authentication" are different concepts. "Identification is a
claim and authentication is validating the identity to be true and
correct," he said.
Since an
Aadhaar number is issued after verification by the statutory authority and is
based on an individual's unique characteristics, the number and information
stored can be used for authentication purposes by submitting the biometrics and
matching those with the records maintained by the authority, Mehta said.
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