As the Taliban swept through Afghanistan in mid-August, declaring the end of two decades of war, reports quickly circulated that they had also captured US military biometric devices used to collect data such as iris scans, fingerprints and facial images. Some feared that the machines, known as HIIDE, could be used to help identify Afghans…
This is the real story of the Afghan biometric databases abandoned to the Taliban
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