‘An enormously valuable trove’: America’s race against Afghan data

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U.S. officials racing to evacuate Afghan allies have limited time before another threat comes into play: vast digital data stores that will expose Afghans’ ties to American operations on a massive scale once in Taliban hands. Telecom companies store reams of records on who Afghan users have called and where they’ve been. Government databases include records of foreign-funded projects and associated personnel records. And stashes of biometric data like fingerprints make people easy to identify. “There’s almost no doubt that they’ve gotten their hands on an enormously valuable trove of…

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