UIDAI's Update to Fix mAadhaar App Causes More Pain for Users

UIDAI may be planning to release the mAadhaar app on iOS in the coming days, only it needs to squash the bugs and fix the security loopholes in the Android version first, considering it continues to remain a privacy and security nightmare. It'due south been a case of i misstep after another and with Aadhaar itself embroiled in huge controversies for exposing personal details of millions of citizens, information technology isn't exactly a huge shock that the mobile app isn't faring whatever better.

In what appears to be yet another major goof-upward by the Unique Identification Authority of Republic of india (UIDAI), the latest version of the mAadhaar app released on the Play Store yesterday (version one.1.one) seems to be incompatible with the previous version. That's right, UIDAI is officially request users to uninstall the earlier version of mAadhaar to exist able to install the new version on their devices.

"Uninstall the previous version before installing the new. If you update the older version with the new version, the app may misbehave".

Security researcher Baptiste Robert, a.grand.a. Elliot Anderson, who has been following the mAadhaar saga from the get-go and alert users well-nigh security loopholes, jumped on the latest goof-up from UIDAI, mocking of the organization'due south incompetence in handling something of this magnitude.

Me reading the release notes of #mAadhaar #android #app 🤔. And so obviously, their is an incompatibility between the ii versions, interesting… movie.twitter.com/ZJnpprE3Bp

— Baptiste Robert (@fs0c131y) February 19, 2018

He had earlier accused the app of being a 'copy-paste job' that lacks the sophistication level of a 'school project'. Reviews on the Play Shop also suggest that the update has caused more trouble than it intended to fix.

UIDAI's Update to Fix mAadhaar App Causes More Pain for Users