Asked to undergo biometric collection and facial analysis for job application

https://old.reddit.com/r/gdpr/comments/1jngjez/nl_asked_to_undergo_biometric_collection_facial

by sensanaty • 1 year ago

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sensanaty• 1 year ago

I'm the OP of the Reddit thread and have no qualms about sharing more info here on HN.

I applied for a position at bunq (https://www.bunq.com/), and the service they wanted me to use was Neurolytics (https://neurolytics.ai/) to proceed with the application.

Things I found particularly troubling:

Quoting from [1]:

The Cultural Fit scan

The cultural fit scan empowers you and the hiring company to see how well you’re a match with the companies value and culture. The scan consists for two parts: Watching a company video (~2 min.)

As you’re watching the video, your webcam is recording. Our smart technology can analyze your behavioral qualities to measure your engagement levels with the various messages in the video.

And

To learn more about your cognitive abilities, you’ll be taking a 10 minute timed questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of 4 types of questions:

- General Knowledge - Logical reasoning - Numerical reasoning - Verbal reasoning

As you’re taking the questionnaire, you’re being recorded. The scores of this questionnaire, will tell the recruiter more about your stress resilience and your ease under pressure.

Not only does this strike me as pure BS from an analytical/scientific POV, it's also just troubling that they expect anyone to be okay with something as insane as this - especially since they keep talking about "valuing privacy and fairness for every applicant" ([2], under "Automated Decision Making & Fairness") ("No hidden biases, no guesswork").

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250330160416/https://neurolyti...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20250330160732/https://careers.b...

Asked to undergo biometric collection and facial analysis for job application

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