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{{Dataset
|has full name=Afghan Personnel and Pay System (APPS)
|Certainty=Documented
|Country=Afghanistan
|is dataset category=Civilian Registry
|Developed by=US Department of Defense
|Dataset Category=Iris Scans, Fingerprints, Facial Images
|Owning institution=The Taliban
|Custodian institution=Netlinks
}}
==Description==

<blockquote> a new integrated human resources and payroll system, APPS, that holds personal data on members of the army and police. The US Defense Department paid for the creation of APPS in 2016 and contracted Netlinks, an Afghan IT-company, to manage the system and integrate AABIS biometric data (iris scan, fingerprints, and photograph). [[CiteRef::humanrightswatchNewEvidenceThat2022]] </blockquote>

<blockquote> “All of this data belongs to the Afghan government, and since the Taliban is now the government, they have unfettered access to every government system,” said a UNDP staff member, who requested anonymity. [[CiteRef::humanrightswatchNewEvidenceThat2022]] </blockquote>
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