I listened to your former panellist's comment. I am not a biometrics expert by any means, but I do want to distance myself a bit from the use of biometrics to gather intelligence and to conduct profiling. I'm a nuts-and-bolts kind of guy. Biometrics is using the technology we have at hand to ensure you can prove who you say you are.
We've evolved throughout history. We had letters of mark, we had credentials, and then we invented photography and we were able to use your photographic image. We had to deal with cultures that thought using your photographic image captured your spirit, yet we worked through those sorts of things.
As the technology changes, I simply want to be able to ensure that when you use that government ID card and put it into your computer, and if you take your index finger and put it on the reader, I can prove that the fingerprint identification of the person using the card that has the information is confirmed and you are who you say you are, and you did not simply come by that card.
So I'm very cautious about staying away from biometrics as intelligence gathering; it's purely identification.