{"id":90113,"date":"2018-03-19T09:28:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T09:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c75afeff16ba961ee49dd106295ad7c1"},"modified":"2018-03-19T09:28:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T09:28:53","slug":"news-story-new-members-appointed-to-biometrics-and-forensics-ethics-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=90113","title":{"rendered":"News story: New members appointed to Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Seven new members have today (19 March) taken up positions as members of the Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group (BFEG).<\/p>\n<p>The new members come from a diverse background, with expertise across genetics, forensic science, biometric data, data protection and the ethics of consent.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hughes OBE, Chair of the BFEG, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m delighted to be welcoming this group of outstanding applicants to be part of the Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">They bring a wealth of experience and will help us to provide independent advice on the ethical impacts of all aspects of biometrics and forensics within the Home Offices remit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The 7 new members are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Thomas Edward Sorell \u2013 professor of politics and philosophy at the University of Warwick<\/li>\n<li>Dr Peter Waggett \u2013 Director of Research at IBM<\/li>\n<li>Professor Liz Campbell \u2013 Director of the Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice and the Director of Research Funding at Durham Law School<\/li>\n<li>Professor Dame Sue Black \u2013 Director of the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Dundee<\/li>\n<li>Professor Simon Caney \u2013 professor in political theory at the University of Warwick<\/li>\n<li>Professor Mark Jobling \u2013 professor of genetics at the University of Leicester<\/li>\n<li>Professor Denise Syndercombe-Court \u2013 professor of forensic science at Kings College London<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven experts take up positions on the ethics group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}