It’s a signal. The database is a giant signal the people were of interest to the US gov. The Taliban will be able to figure out if they were criminals or Talib

It’s a signal. The database is a giant signal the people were of interest to the US gov. The Taliban will be able to figure out if they were criminals or Taliban or not. That leaves a small group of people they can torture to figure out the rest. Just have to hand out these same bioscanners to local police then hand off any matches to the higher organs. This device had a few thousand people. They can collect hundreds of these devices and rebuild the whole database.