Jail term for staffs and fine for companies, if insisting on Aadhaar – Government of India has amend the existing Indian Telegraph Act and PMLA act and incorporate the strict rules for sharing the Aadhaar details. They have also included the unauthorized access for Aadhaar. Banks insisting on Aadhaar as the sole identity and address proof will be liable to a penalty of up to Rs 1 crore and jail for their staffers concerned — ranging from three to 10 years.
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New law will give Aadhaar holders the option to use the unique ID for completing KYC formalities. The amendments to the Indian Telegraph Act and PMLA have been done keeping in mind a Supreme Court order on Aadhaar, which says the unique ID can be compulsory only for welfare services involving public funds.
The Aadhaar biometric base is secure and cannot be accessed by agencies using the electronic authentication process, but attempts to misuse the data will invite a fine of Rs 50 lakh and a jail term extending to 10 years. The government’s move is intended to allow private firms to do Aadhaar-based authentication that uses the UIDAI servers in the light of their pleas that the SC ruling affects their business.
There is a fine of Rs 10,000 and a three-year prison term for failure to obtain consent before collecting information for authentication and the penalty clauses also apply to offline verification through QR codes. Unauthorised publication of ID or photograph can mean a fine between Rs 10,000 and Rs 1 lakh.
