CNIL authorizes biometrics to prevent test fraud
28 August, 2009
category: Biometrics
The French National Commission for Informatics and Liberty (CNIL) has authorized use of vascular-based biometric systems for ensuring identity of standardized test-takers in France. This is the first time the organization has accepted such systems for use on any of their test-takers.
Officials from CNIL site the specific systems higher standards of safety and offering equal opportunity to test takers as its reasoning for accepting the system as utilizing palm-vein scans means capturing images that are much harder to steal and recreate. The tests that will utilize the new biometric systems are generally associated with admissions into graduate schools such as business school.