During its military presence in Afghanistan, the US Army created a huge biometric database – over 25 million records on local residents.
The US military has positioned biometrics collection as a “terrorist tracking effort.”
The collection was put on stream, several thousand people a day were digitized. The database included fingerprints, iris, identifying biographical information, occupation, and more.
What happened now is that the Taliban have taken over US military biometric devices and are now using the US-generated database to identify Afghans who aided the coalition forces.
This whole situation once again emphasizes the importance of avoiding passing biometrics. Even a well-intentioned database can and will be used against you.
Biometrics is the only way companies and governments can track us at all times. You can change your name, social security number, but you cannot change the biometrics. The more we normalize these tactics, the more difficult it will be to escape them. I am very afraid of what our future will be. “
And as Richard Matthew Stallman said
“The only secure database is the one that was never built”