The police ID application form, for example, also appears to ask for recruits’ favorite fruit and vegetable.
The information is also of deep military value-whether for the Americans who helped construct it or for the Taliban, both of which are “looking for networks” of their opponent’s supporters, says Annie Jacobsen, a journalist and author of First Platoon: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance.īut not all the data has such clear use. He calls it a sort of “genealogy” of “community connections” that is “putting all of these people at risk.” One of the forms for police recruitment alone captured 36 pieces of information, including data on applicants and their families that included details such as "favorite fruit” and “favorite vegetable.”
This turns what was a simple digital catalogue into something far more dangerous, according to Ranjit Singh, a postdoctoral scholar at the nonprofit research group Data & Society who studies data infrastructures and public policy. But it also contains details on the individuals’ military specialty and career trajectory, as well as sensitive relational data such as the names of their father, uncles, and grandfathers, as well as the names of the two tribal elders per recruit who served as guarantors for their enlistment.
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