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 …
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Countries around the world are using border surveillance systems against their own citizens
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 …
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