The five-member constitutional bench headed by Chief Judicial Magistrate Deepak Mishra has dismissed Section 57 of the Support Act, 2016 on Wednesday. Section 57 had permission to use support information for the verification of identity of any person. But after the Supreme Court ruling, it has now become unconstitutional. Judge said that all the arrangements already existed for the verification of a person.
You can link support numbers to a bank account or a mobile phone number
After this order of the Supreme Court, it will not be necessary to associate support with mobile number and bank account and private companies may not even ask for a support card from their customers. The problem is that by the order of the Supreme Court, banks and telecommunication service have tied up the biometric data of millions of people through the e-KYC or C-KYC process. Some of them are thinking whether they can link their support numbers to bank accounts or mobile phone numbers?
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Provision for linking to UIDAI
Five points of the UIDAI rules have been said that the base card holder can cancel the consent given to a KUA (e-KYC user agency) to store its e-KYC data at any time or to share it with a third party. On doing so, KUA (e-KYC user agency) will delete all data of e-KYC. This means that the base card holder is legally allowed to remove his biometric identification statement from bank accounts and mobile phone numbers.