Google said that they have coded the UIDAI number in the contact list

UIDAI number in the contact list

The mystery of UIDAI number in the contact list finally gets solved on late Friday night, with Android's parent company Google, stating it was at their end that the old helpline number — 1800-300-1947 — was coded into Android-powered devices back in 2014. 

A Google spokesperson said, "Our internal review has revealed that in 2014, the then UIDAI helpline number and the 112 distress helpline number were inadvertently coded into the setup-wizard...Since the numbers get listed on a user’s contact list these get transferred accordingly to the contacts on any new device. We are sorry for any concern that this might have caused and would like to assure everyone that this is not a situation of an unauthorized access of their Android devices. Users can manually delete the number from their devices. We will work towards fixing this in an upcoming release of SetUp wizard which will be made available to OEMs over the next few weeks.” 

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