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Comment by xg15

USA: "Federal ID would be literally 1984!"

Also USA:

> The entire population of Afghanistan was biometrically catalogued - supported by the German Bundeswehr. The motivation for this systematic collection of fingerprints, irises, faces and DNA was to enable the distinction between good and bad people. Programs such as the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) were designed to identify known criminals, as well as local collaborators or Afghan security forces, at any time.

parent xg15 3 years ago

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