Aadhaar Verification Rules Amended as India Strengthens Data Compliance

It is expected that India’s flagship digital identity infrastructure, the Aadhaar, will undergo significant changes to its regulatory framework in the coming days following a formal amendment to the Aadhaar (Targeted Determination of Services and Benefits Management) Regulations, 2.0.

Introducing a new revision in the framework makes facial authentication formally recognized as a legally acceptable method of verifying a person’s identity, marking a significant departure from traditional biometric methods such as fingerprinting and iris scans. 

The updated regulations introduce a strong compliance framework that focuses on explicit user consent, data minimisation, and privacy protection, as well as a stronger compliance architecture. The government seems to have made a deliberate effort to align Aadhaar’s operational model with evolving expectations about biometric governance, data protection, and the safe and responsible use of digital identity systems as they evolved. 

In the course of undergoing the regulatory overhaul, the Unique Identification Authority of India has introduced a new digital identity tool called the Aadhaar Verifiable Credential in order to facilitate a secure and tamper-proof identity verification process. 

Additionally, the authority has tightened the compliance framework governing offline Aadhaar verif

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