AZRAQ, Jordan: At a grocery store checkout in the Jordanian refugee camp of Azraq, Sameera Sabbouh stares wide-eyed into a scanner to pay for her shopping her iris scan unlocking payment from a digital aid account with the help of block- chain technology. Many of the nearly 40,000 Syrians who live in the camp recognize the convenience of the cashless, card-free payment
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Research from Business & Human Rights Resource Centre finds companies are profiting from surveillance technologies that facilitate human rights abuses against migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in the Middle East and North Africa, with little to no oversight.