US, Kyrgyzstan, India hunt criminals with facial recognition watchlists

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has reportedly used facial recognition and fingerprint biometric data to locate an alleged Bosnian war criminal who was living under an assumed name.

The Bosnian War was an armed conflict that occurred in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995, which is estimated to have caused deaths in excess of 100,000, displacing over 2.2 million. Numerous people have been arrested for war crimes in its aftermath.

The charges and search warrant, as reported by …

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