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Military Device Containing Thousands of Peoples’ Biometric Data Reportedly Sold on eBay
More than decade ago, near Kandahar, Afghanistan, the U.S. military employed one of its Secure Electronic Enrollment Kit (SEEK II) devices for the last time. The piece of tech, a chunky black rectangle used to scan fingerprints and irises, was turned off and stowed away.
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Greta Thunberg ‘Urgently’ Seeks Help to Evacuate Afghan Youth Climate Activists
Fridays For Future — the global climate strike organisation that was founded three years ago by Greta Thunberg — is in trouble. On Thursday, the Twitter account repping the group’s activists working in the “Most Affected Peoples and Areas” (MAPA) put out a desperate plea begging for anyone with resources to help evacuate members currently…
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U.S. Officials Rush to Delete Online Pics of Afghan Allies
Amid the catastrophe that’s been the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan this week, U.S. agencies have initiated sweeping purges of online information concerning friendly Afghan nationals. Fears have arisen that the country’s ruling Taliban could seek retaliation against individuals with even the slightest associations to the Americans and the shattered Afghan security forces.
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Afghanistan’s All-Girls Robotics Team Desperate to Escape Country as Taliban Takes Control: Report
Afghanistan’s all-girls robotics team, which made headlines in recent years for their inventions, is desperately trying to escape the country after the Taliban took control of the capital city of Kabul over the weekend, according to a report from Canada’s CBC News.