Google says sorry for ‘inadvertent’ phone intrusion

| | New Delhi

Amid public outrage over Aadhaar helpline number being pre-stored without user consent on certain mobile phones, Google late on Friday night apologised for “inadvertently” loading the old UIDAI helpline number.

“Our internal review has revealed that in 2014, then UIDAI helpline number and the 112 distress helpline number were inadvertently coded into the setup wizard of Android release given to original equipment manufacturers,” it said.