From the course: Ethical AI for Hiring and Talent Acquisition: A Conversation with Don Phin

What are the concerns about using biometrics in hiring?

From the course: Ethical AI for Hiring and Talent Acquisition: A Conversation with Don Phin

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What are the concerns about using biometrics in hiring?

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- Don, how are AI hiring tools using biometric data, and what concerns do you think this raises? - So when you think of biometrics, you think of the five senses. Seeing, you know. Like, I talked about HireVue using eye detection for honesty purposes and things like that. Voice. The voice inflection has a lot to do with credibility. The FBI uses it all the time, the CIA uses it. It does voice detection 24/7 around the world and if it picks up something that sounds like a lie, all of a sudden the sensors go off, right? So, there's that. When you're drug testing somebody pre-work 'cause they work in a safety-sensitive position, that blood test is biometric, that pee test is biometric, that breath test is biometric, okay? If you're getting DNA information from some type of testing, that's biometric, right? So, anything coming out of your body is basically biometric, all right? And in hiring, the real concern is the disclosure that we're gathering this information and what we're going to do with this information. So if on a pre-hire basis I'm getting a breathalyzer test, then I'm going to say I'm storing that information for one year and then it'll be destroyed. So, that's what these laws really require. Just, same thing again, transparency, consent, storage, destruction.

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