SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE
Select Committee
Announcement
No. 36
(14-15): 20 November 2014
Evidence
hearing Current and future
uses of biometric data and technologies
Wednesday 26
November 2014
Committee Room 15, Palace of
Westminster
This is the first
of two evidence sessions examining biometric data and
technologies.
This session will
explore future applications of biometrics, focusing on the science underpinning
biometric technologies as well as on some of the legislative and regulatory
challenges that these developments may pose. Witnesses are drawn from academia
(Panel 1); industry (Panel 2); business and civil liberties groups (Panel
3).
Watch it online at
http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Live.aspx
At 9.15
am
·
Professor Juliet
Lodge, Professor
Emeritus, University of Leeds representing the Biometrics
Institute
·
Professor Louise
Amoore, Professor of
Political Geography, Durham University
·
Professor Sue
Black, Director, Centre
for Anatomy and Human Identification, University of Dundee
At 9.55
am
·
Sir John
Adye, Chairman,
Identity Assurance Systems
·
Ben
Fairhead, Biometric Systems
Engineer, 3M
·
Erik
Bowman, Northrop
Grumman
At 10.35
am
·
Andrew
Tyrer, Head of Enabling
Technology, Innovate UK
·
Emma
Carr, Director, Big
Brother Watch
·
Dr Peter
Waggett, Chairman, British
Standards Institution Technical Committee IST/44
FURTHER
INFORMATION
Committee
website: www.parliament.uk/science
Committee
Membership:
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Media
Information: Nick
Davies daviesnick@parliament.uk / 020
7219 3297
Specific
Committee information: scitechcom@parliament.uk / 020
7219 2793
Twitter:
@CommonsSTC
The
session is open to the public on a first come, first served basis. There is no
system for the prior reservation of seats in Committee Rooms. It is advisable to
allow about 30 minutes to pass through security checks. Committee rooms and the
timing of meetings are subject to change.
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