Does something in this raw data distinctly separate collaborators from "common people"? It's a travesty that they left the devices and the data behind, but I can't see anything in the article clearly stating that the 2632 identities found in those devices either all belonged to collaborators, or was "tagged" in order to discern them. So how would the Taliban positively identify them without having access to the complete refined/processed database that these raw biometrics went into?
It’s a signal. The database is a giant signal the people were of interest to the US gov.
The Taliban will be able to figure out if they were criminals or Taliban or not.
That leaves a small
group of people they can torture to figure out the rest. Just have to hand out these same bioscanners to local police then hand off any matches to the higher organs.
This device had a few thousand people. They can collect hundreds of these devices and rebuild the whole database.
--> One of the devices contained biometric data on more than 2600 people, some of which had entries such as "Volunteer Background Checks," "Host Nation Police," or "Host Nation Military."
"Some of which" isn't the same as "all of them", and none of those three categories exclude being an islamist. I get that it's a serious case of recklessness, but the reactions here are too alarmist.
Your reply makes no sense. Not every Afghani collaborated, and plenty of collaborators follow Islam. This is obvious. This doesn't make those who collaborated any safer.
You don't even need to know any specifics: it's a well-known humans tend to punish traitors even if they have a lot in common.
Is this attitude why you and everyone else is making the assumption that exactly every stray biometric identity that can be salvaged from this disaster is guaranteed to be a traitor, and guaranteed to be found and executed by the Taliban? You don't need to explain the Taliban to me - I was born in an Islamic country to a Muslim family - but maybe you can help me understand your alarmist reasoning regarding the biometric identities themselves.
