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The Taliban reportedly have control of US biometric devices – a lesson in life-and-death consequences of data privacy

  • Written by Margaret Hu, Professor of Law and of International Affairs, Penn State
imageA U.S. Army soldier scans the irises of an Afghan civilian in 2012 as part of an effort by the military to collect biometric information from much of the Afghan population.Jose Cabezas/AFP via GettyImages

In the wake of the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul and the ouster of the Afghan national government, alarming reports indicate that the...

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