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Above, Taliban fighters take part in a rally in Kabul on Tuesday as they celebrate after the U.S. The Taliban reportedly may have access to biometric data used to track people who previously helped the U.S. The group told Reuters that the data could be used to track anyone who was involved in the previous Afghan government, along with those who supported the U.S., international nonprofits or human rights groups. "This technology is likely to include access to a database with fingerprints and iris scans, and include facial recognition technology." "We understand that the Taliban is now likely to have access to various biometric databases and equipment in Afghanistan," the group wrote on Twitter, according to Reuters. for security reasons, the Afghan government also adopted the technology to implement digital identification for voting, criminal prosecution, and to clear workers for employment.Įarlier this month, U.S.-based advocacy group Human Rights First warned that the Taliban is now likely to have access to those various digital databases. However, in addition to the use of biometric data obtained by the U.S.
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Such devices incorporate a fingerprint reader, iris scanner and camera, allowing the military to obtain fingerprints and facial photos to identify people of interest, The Conversation reported. Department of Defense had stored approximately 4.8 million biometric records of people in Afghanistan and Iraq amid the ongoing wars there, with about 630,000 of the records collected using Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment (HIIDE) devices. military and Afghan government throughout the past two decades.īy 2011, the U.S. Īccording to the outlet, biometric data-or body measurements and calculations that can digitally track identifiable human characteristics-were collected across Afghanistan by the U.S. and other forces have started to hide or destroy digital evidence of their identities that could be obtained by the Taliban, The Conversation reported. troops, the militant group reportedly could access biometric data as a way to track vulnerable Afghans and individuals who previously worked for the U.S.įearing the threat of execution or arrest, Afghans who once supported the U.S. Following the Taliban's rapid takeover of Afghanistan and the withdrawal of U.S.