Students in NY may soon have to produce retinal scan; Go to jail for cheating

[rambone]

Schools will soon be taking one more step closer to becoming prisons in New York. The latest bills would make cheating on tests into misdemeanors or even felonies. Lawmakers also want to mandate that the students produce fingerprints, retinal scan, and a mandatory facial recognition/barcode ID card known as "Digital DNA." Then the inmates can get used to going around with a barcode around their necks and scanning themselves in at checkpoints.



NY bill would make crimes out of SAT test cheating

The measure proposed by Sen. Kenneth LaValle of Suffolk County would create new felonies of facilitation of education testing fraud and of scheming to defraud educational testing and create a misdemeanor of forgery of a test. The felonies would apply to a test taker who impersonates someone else for pay.

The bill also calls for photo identification and other ways to prove the test taker matches the name on the test. Other potential test security measures include fingerprinting and retinal scans.

'Digital DNA' May Soon Be Required To Take SAT And ACT Exams

Karp volunteered her forensic image for a digital DNA. It begins with mandatory pre-registering at a student’s home school with official legal ID documents only.

“All of that is uploaded to an I.T. system of wireless connections called the ‘CLOUD,’” Dr. Hayward said.

The student’s unique digital DNA code is created and assigned to an ID card with covert authentication marks printed onto it. Proctors can verify instantly with a simple UV light and smart phone scan.

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[rambone]

 

[Benny]

The measure proposed by Sen. Kenneth LaValle of Suffolk County would create new felonies of facilitation of education testing fraud and of scheming to defraud educational testing and create a misdemeanor of forgery of a test. The felonies would apply to a test taker who impersonates someone else for pay.

I don't see a problem with this part.

 

[NYFelon]

Everything's a felony in NY already, we need some misdemeanors.

 

[buckstopshere]

Sounds like the .gov in NY needs a rectal exam in an attempt to remove their heads!

 

[Zimm1001]

Schools will soon be taking one more step closer to becoming prisons in New York. The latest bills would make cheating on tests into misdemeanors or even felonies. Lawmakers also want to mandate that the students produce fingerprints, retinal scan, and a mandatory facial recognition/barcode ID card known as "Digital DNA." Then the inmates can get used to going around with a barcode around their necks and scanning themselves in at checkpoints.



Yet those same lawmakers oppose having a State issued ID to vote! Really! Election fraud is ok but they draw the line on cheating at school. How come no one is screaming racial discrimination! Seems like you could make the same argument against this that they do against voter ID. Just saying.

 

[NYFelon]

They're just responding to their constituents. Suffolk and Nassau Counties are very affluent, overall. When the folks who butter your bread come a-wailing, you'll do something. This is a knee-jerk leftwing state. The solution to everything is laws, laws, and more laws.