{"id":23283,"date":"2024-05-11T01:16:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T19:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23283"},"modified":"2025-04-07T01:28:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T19:58:47","slug":"digilocker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/digilocker-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What is DigiLocker?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About DigiLocker:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a flagship initiative of the <strong>Ministry of Electronics &amp; IT (MeitY)<\/strong> under the Digital India programme in 2015<\/li>\n<li>It is a government approved application and is ideally maintained with strict security protocols framed by officials.<\/li>\n<li>It operates as an app to <strong>store users\u2019 digital records<\/strong>. The app can be used when applying for a passport, reviewing marksheets, or proving one\u2019s identity during travel.<\/li>\n<li>The app is part of the Indian government\u2019s paper-free initiative aimed at letting users access, verify, and store essential documents in a digital wallet so that they are easy to retrieve and present to officials when required.\n<ul>\n<li>The issued documents in DigiLocker system are deemed to be at par with original physical documents as per Rule 9A of the <strong>Information Technology<\/strong> (Preservation and Retention of Information by Intermediaries providing Digital Locker facilities) <strong>Rules, 2016.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It has <strong>standard security measures<\/strong> in place including <strong>2048 Bit RSA SSL encryption<\/strong>, <strong>multi-factor authentication <\/strong>(OTP verification), consent systems, timed log outs, and security audits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is multifactor authentication?<\/h3>\n<p>Multifactor authentication (MFA) is an account login process that requires multiple methods of authentication from independent categories of credentials to verify a user&#8217;s identity for a login or other transaction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/technology\/what-is-digilocker-and-does-it-keep-your-data-safe-explained\/article68163891.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What is DigiLocker and does it keep your data safe? | Explained<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DigiLocker is a flagship initiative of the Ministry of Electronics &#038; IT (MeitY) under the Digital India programme in 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}