New Delhi: Share your Aadhaar card number with anyone and everyone has never been safe to do.
Therefore, you must be very careful when choosing to use it as proof of ID.
Even if you want to share aadhaar cards as proof ID, you always have the option not to disclose your Aadhaar card number using the virtual ID ‘Masked Aadhaar’ or 16 digit (VID).
In this case, you can download the new e-copy of your Aadhaar card where your original Aadhaar number will be hidden.
What did Aadhaar dedopped? The Aadhaar Mask option allows users to hide their Aadhaar numbers in the e-aadhaar copy that you downloaded.
The masked Aadhaar number will replace the first 8 digit aadhaar number with several characters by crossing “xxxx-xxxx” while making the last 4 digits of the aadhaar number visible.
Why do you have to use masked Aadhaar? Aadhaar is valid masked and is widely accepted so you don’t have to be fooled to believe that it’s not authentic and acceptable.
By using this as proof of ID is much safer than an ordinary aadhaar card because it reduces the distribution of your aadhaar number and therefore the risk is misused by also shrinking.
How to download MASKED AADHAAR? Open this link – https://eaadhaar.uidai.gov.in/ Enter your aadhaar card number checks ‘I want aadhaar masked?’ Enter Captcha Verification Click ‘Send OTP’ You Download E- Copy Aadhaar