There's more possible bad news today for those in Afghanistan who allied with the United States during this country's long war in that nation. The New York Times reports that a mobile biometrics capture device from the war was purchased by a German security researcher for $68 on eBay. When that researcher examined the fingerprint-and-iris scanner delivered, however, he was (ahem) alarmed to discover that the scanner had been shipped to him with a 2012-era database of scans from over 2,600 people still intact.
Some of those were terrorists and other wanted individuals—the point of the military biometrics program was to provide in-field identification of targets who might try to pass through checkpoints or enter U.S.-secured areas. But others "appeared to be people who had worked with the U.S. government or simply been stopped at checkpoints."