"Controversy surrounding the mysterious entry of the UIDAI number in the contact lists of many smartphone users around the country."
There is nothing to panic.
UIDAI Aadhaar Card Helpline Number: The body had earlier denied that it forced any smartphone manufacturer or telecom service provider to add the helpline number to the contact list of users
UIDAI Aadhaar Card Helpline Number: The body had earlier denied that it forced any smartphone manufacturer or telecom service provider to add the helpline number to the contact list of users
Hours after the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) denied that it forced any smartphone manufacturer or telecom service provider to add a helpline number into people’s contact lists, Google accepted that it had in 2014 inadvertently coded the 112 distress number and the UIDAI number into its setup wizard for Android. This in a way put to end the controversy surrounding the mysterious entry of the UIDAI number in the contact lists of many smartphone users around the country
Google spokesperson said it “would like to assure everyone that this is not a situation of an unauthorised access of their Android devices”.
“Users can manually delete the number from their devices.”
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Snehal Vakilna ( Cyber Crime Lawyer, Investigator, Author, Activist and Expert)
