Are Aid Agencies Abetting ‘Surveillance Humanitarianism’?

UN and charity organizations are taking biometric data from refugees, prompting some critics to worry about how it could be misused

MORGAN MEAKER
OneZero
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6 min readSep 27, 2019

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MORGAN MEAKER
OneZero

British Journalist. Mostly human rights in Europe and the Middle East. Working with @Guardian @Reuters @BBC etc