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The Taliban control systems holding sensitive biometric data that Western donor governments left behind in Afghanistan in August 2021, putting thousands of Afghans at risk.
Woodward Featured in New Book on Warfare
John D. Woodward Jr., Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston university, is featured in the newly released book
First Platoon is described as “an urgent investigation into warfare, good, and evil in the age of biometrics, the technology that would allow the government to identify anyone, anywhere, at any time.”
In the book, author Annie Jacobsen documents the implementation of biometric technologies by the United States Department of Defense (D0D) during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As part of her research, she interviewed Woodward on his service as the Director of the DoD Biometrics Management Office from 2003 to 2005.
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First Platoon: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance, by Annie Jacobsen Dutton
It s common knowledge that the FBI has a database of people s fingerprints. Many local police have their databases, too. And so, it turns out, does the United States military.
American forces have been gathering biometric data on the people they encounter in war zones for years. It s a way to tell the good guys from the bad – though investigative reporter Annie Jacobsen argues it doesn t always work.
In a book called
First Platoon, Jacobsen follows the lives of Americans told to gather that data in Afghanistan and she questions what the U.S. government means to do with it all.