Editing Biometrics (section)

====Events where biometric data was compromised====
* [[Office of Personnel Management data breach]] in 2015
* Biostar 2 fingerprints leak in 2019<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-08-14 |title=Biostar security software 'leaked a million fingerprints' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49343774 |access-date=2025-02-15 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* Taliban seizure of US biometric data in 2021<ref>{{Cite web |title=This is the real story of the Afghan biometric databases abandoned to the Taliban |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/30/1033941/afghanistan-biometric-databases-us-military-40-data-points/ |access-date=2025-02-15 |website=MIT Technology Review |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-09-07 |title=U.S.-built databases, biometric data a potential tool of the Taliban |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-built-databases-biometric-data-a-potential-tool-of-the-taliban |access-date=2025-02-15 |website=PBS News |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sirota |first=Ken Klippenstein, Sara |date=2021-08-17 |title=The Taliban Have Seized U.S. Military Biometrics Devices |url=https://theintercept.com/2021/08/17/afghanistan-taliban-military-biometrics/ |access-date=2025-02-15 |website=The Intercept |language=en-US}}</ref> 
* Afghan & Iraqi Fingerprints and Iris database<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hill |first=Kashmir |last2=Ismay |first2=John |last3=Schuetze |first3=Christopher F. |last4=Krolik |first4=Aaron |date=2022-12-27 |title=For Sale on eBay: A Military Database of Fingerprints and Iris Scans |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/technology/for-sale-on-ebay-a-military-database-of-fingerprints-and-iris-scans.html |access-date=2025-02-15 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>