Examination of Witnesses (Question 519)
DR TONY
MANSFIELD, DR
JOHN DAUGMAN,
DR EDGAR
WHITLEY AND
PROFESSOR ANGELA
SASSE
3 MAY 2006
Q519 Chairman: Could I welcome our second
panel to the inquiry today? I will not repeat what I said earlier
but this is a key inquiry looking at the issue of the way in which
Government assesses risk in terms of its policy-making, the way
in which it uses scientific advice behind its policy-making, and
we are very anxious to look at the process rather than, in fact,
to make judgments about whether we should have ID cards or not.
That is an issue for public policy. We have in front of us Dr
Tony Mansfield from the National Physical Laboratory; Dr John
Daugman from the University of Cambridge; Dr Edgar Whitley from
the LSE, and Professor Angela Sasse from UCL. Now, before I start
my line of questioning could I ask each of you, do you have any
commercial interest in any of the technologies which are being
proposed either by yourselves or by the Government?
Dr Mansfield: Speaking for myself
I have no attachment to one technology or the other, but the area
in which I work is in evaluation of biometrics, so obviously I
have some interest in technology.
Dr Daugman: I do not, and I would
like to correct something that was said in the previous hearing
of this Committee which was I have the worldwide rights to iris
scanning—
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