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Here’s how a well-connected security company is quietly building mass biometric databases in West Africa with EU aid funds (privacyinternational.org)

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As well as equipping and training security agencies in surveillance, the Fund is being used to bankroll the development of mass-scale biometric identity systems across the African continent and is awarding lucrative contracts to well-connected European security companies in the process.

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