Arizona Republic: Graduate-school admission test to use palm scan
The Arizona Republic has an interesting story that highlights the continuing trend of biometrics identification seeping into everyday life.
Beginning this fall, individuals taking the rigorous Graduate Management Admission Test, or GMAT, will have to submit themselves to a palm-vein scan to ensure they are who they say they are and not a hired brain paid to bring in a higher score. [...]
Currently, when individuals register for the test, they are digitally fingerprinted, photographed and have their signature recorded. They also are videotaped while taking the exam. [...]
The technology is being used in some hospitals in the United States and on automated teller machines in Japan.
Trials of the palm-vein scan for the GMAT will begin this month at some testing sites in South Korea and India. If all goes well, the scanners will be distributed starting in the fall to be in every testing center by March 2009, including the two Pearson Professional Center locations in Mesa and Phoenix.
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:55 pm
In which sane world is it okay for a private monopoly to force people to submit to biometrics?
If anyone wants to go to a grad business school then they have 2 choices:
1) they can take the GMAT
2) they can take the GMAT
there is no alternative.
And people think orwellian world is not descending upon us!
btw if anyone starts a campaign against this then please do let us know. Volunteering for privacy is a good thing.
thanks for this blog.