Tag Archives: Biometrics

Taliban fighters stand guard at a checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) Lucia Nalbandian, Ryerson University In 2007, the United States military began using a small, handheld device to collect and match the iris, fingerprint and facial scans of over 1.5 million Afghans against a database of biometric data. The device, known as Handheld Interagency …

Klein Ongaki Keren Weitzberg, UCL Hamdi was just an infant when his relatives first brought him to the Dadaab refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya to be registered as a refugee – despite the fact he was a Kenyan citizen. Like many ethnic Somali citizens of Kenya living in the vicinity of the camp, they were drawn to the prospect of …