According to the article, they were “shocked” by the findings. They discovered the names, nationalities, photos, fingerprints, and iris scans of 2,632 individuals on the memory card of one smartphone. Other information revealed that it was used in the summer of 2012 near Kandahar, Afghanistan. Another gadget, which stored the fingerprints and iris scans of a select number of US military personnel, was deployed in Jordan in 2013.
According to a 2011 handbook to the devices, such gadgets were used to detect rebels, authenticate local and third-country individuals visiting US bases, and connect people to activities. “It was disturbing that [the US military] didn’t even try to protect the data,” Marx told the New York Times. “They apparently didn’t care about the risk or ignored it.
