How Aadhaar masking works

To protect candidate privacy and comply with Indian regulations, OneATS automatically redacts Aadhaar numbers from uploaded onboarding verification documents.

Automated OCR redaction

1. 1When a new hire uploads an Aadhaar card during document collection, optical character recognition locates the 12-digit number.
2. 2OneATS renders an image-only preview with the first 8 digits permanently blacked out (displaying only the last four digits: XXXX-XXXX-1234).
3. 3Because the preview is a flattened image, hidden numbers cannot be inspected or copied from document text layers.
4. 4If OCR cannot reliably detect the number, the preview is withheld with a notice rather than displayed unmasked.

Admin-only original document access

The original document remains encrypted on disk. Only designated Company Admins can click View Original Document to verify identity, and every view action is permanently recorded in the Audit Log with a PII_EXPORTED event.