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Faulty Background Checks Blamed on Digitized Records, Greedy Amateurs

Loaded on May 15, 2013 by Joe Watson published in Prison Legal News May, 2013, page 34
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Databases. Location: United States of America.
Whoever said that living in the past is a fruitless endeavor never tried to make money off background checks.

Billions of publicly-available records have resulted in a global army of unskilled, wanna-be detectives who make quick bucks by peddling information obtained from public databases related to arrests, criminal convictions and ...

 

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