Ultimately, “biometrics supports a national identity by facilitating border control for Afghanistan as a sovereign nation through the identification of its citizens and lawful visitors”.
At this meeting, the implementation of biometrics was promoted by the US in order to ‘help’ Afghanistan in a threefold way: to “understand who its citizens are”, “control its borders” and have “identity dominance” ie.
They mention a conference on biometrics in Kabul, organised by the US military in 2010. In their article in MIT Technology Review, Guo and Noori look to the broader issue of database sharing in which information is often permanently held. There is uncertainty about whether the physical objects left behind are able to be cleared of the data at a distance. Handheld HIIDE devices store biometric data within them – up to 22,000 profiles per device – of iris, fingerprint and facial images. The Intercept focused on the use of HIIDE (Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment) devices, used by the US since around 2010. A number of reports came out highlighting the dangers of unprotected data being taken over by the Taliban. In the aftermath of the US exit from Afghanistan, concerns have been raised about the security of biometric data gathered from Afghans by the US military, revealing the ineffectiveness of absolute protection of data through time and geographies, and across political interests. The ‘collaborative’ ‘sharing’ of biometric data is supported, by the EU or US, until it falls into the ‘wrong’ hands.
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