Author: Karl Steinacker

Digital Advisor for the International Civil Society Centre (ICSC)

Contingency Planning in the Digital Age: Biometric Data of Afghans Must Be Reconsidered

Posted by and & filed under Humanitarianism, Security

The situation in Afghanistan changes by the minute. In this blog post, we want to call attention to a largely overlooked issue: protection of Afghan refugees or other Afghans who have been registered biometrically by humanitarian or military agencies. Having collected biometrics from various parts of the Afghan population, for different purposes and with different… Read more »