UK Borders Bill
1:30 pm
Chris Mole (Ipswich, Labour)
You described to us, Professor Anderson, how some of the biometrics could singly, if not in combination, significantly increase confidence in a transaction between an individual and the state at any point. Can you tell me how you think a false negative would affect an individual in any such transaction? Do you think it would be any worse than a reversion to the situation before the use of biometrics—that is, if they had to produce the paper documents that they currently have to produce?