Posted on 08/23/2021 7:41:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin
"We would go into villages and enrol people into this biometric data system," US Marine Special Operations Command veteran Peter Kiernan recalls.
"You had a device about 12 inches by six inches wide. It would scan their fingerprints, it would scan their retina, it would also take a picture of them."
A United Nations document recently seen by the BBC says the Taliban are intensifying their hunt for people who worked for, and collaborated with, Nato and US forces.
And the giant stores of biometric data collected by both the US military and the Afghan government could, some argue, pose a risk to those facing reprisals.
Using handheld devices called HIIDE (Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment), soldiers like Mr Kiernan would add the details of Afghans to a US biometric store.
He said it was useful in identifying bomb-makers, while it was also used to confirm the identities of contractors and locals working with the US military.
The original military ambition was to cover 80% of the population (25 million people) on the system, although the actual figure achieved is thought to be much less.
On Tuesday, news site the Intercept said military sources had told it that some HIIDE devices had fallen into Taliban hands, while Reuters reported a Kabul resident saying the Taliban were making house-to-house inspections using a "biometrics machine".
An Afghan official told NewScientist biometric infrastructure was now in the hands of the Taliban.
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WTH? Did it EVER occur to our brass what would happen if we lost the war and the enemy captured that system? Why in the world were we doing that? Just to identify some bomb makers? That doesn't pass the smell test. Were we going to shower free money on every Afghani like we do here?
It sounds more like a test run for deploying that system in the USA.
Yes.
Out of control technology PING
I suppose it depends on the info attached to the name/face. If bomb makers are identified, the Taliban may promote them. U.S. citizens and allies, not so much.
Like the Tally Wackers need that level of tech to achieve their goals, no they do not
Two comments
- Testing out the system in Afghanistan was no doubt very useful for a future smooth roll-out in the USA itself.
- I assume that the devices only collect biometric data. Once they are disconnected from the network/database, they are useless. But I wouldn’t put it past some Fed.gov idiot to forget to disconnect the Afghan machines.
Thanks BenLurkin. I'm sure the needed data will be emailed to the Taliban -- if not by the Chinese, Russians, or wikileaks, then by the Biden regime.
They did not delete any hard drives or smash & burn the lap tops😠 Some field grade officers need to get shit canned asap
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