Skip tracing is a specialized technique used to locate individuals—sometimes they have intentionally disappeared to avoid legal or financial responsibilities, sometimes they are a missing heir to an estate who has been lost in the midst of clerical obscurity, sometimes you just don’t know how to reach them. The term “skip tracing” is derived from […]
Category Archives: Background Checking
What is CASS?
July 10, 2024 – 10:29 am
If you’re familiar with address data, consumer marketing lists, or the US postal system, you’ve probably dealt with CASS, or The Coding Accuracy Support System. From a ten-thousand-foot view, the USPS’s CASS certification takes a poorly formatted (or erroneous) address and translates it into a standardized and deliverable format. In doing so, it also corrects […]
Product Highlight: Identity Verification
June 20, 2024 – 11:03 am
A common need in the data industry is to be able to verify a person’s identity. It’s not always possible to sit across from them at a desk, scan their driver’s license, and verify whether they’re legitimate or not. More often than not, the business is attempting to verify the identity of someone they’ve never […]
Where has all the vital data gone? – Part 2
January 18, 2024 – 11:15 am
Last time we talked about major life events which can generate data. Things like marriage, divorce, death, and even births. These types of data generally have court records or public filings attached to them. This time we’ll explore the world of minor life events. These minor events are typically used for marketing purposes but can […]
Where has all the vital data gone?
December 5, 2023 – 9:50 am
It happens to everyone. Sometime in your late 20’s or mid 30’s all your friends start to disappear. They get married, have children, start families, move away from home, and ultimately join the stream of meaningless updates on your Facebook feed. Seeing them once a week turns into seeing them only during the holidays turns […]
What is “The Box” and why are we banning it?
September 7, 2023 – 10:17 am
Have you ever filled out a job application which asks the question, “have you ever been convicted of a crime?” with a little checkbox next to it? That’s “the box” that everyone’s talking about. For many years, HR professionals across the nation were relying on this box to pre-screen applicants without ever conducting a compliant […]
How is AI being used in the data industry? Pt 2
August 22, 2023 – 11:32 am
In our previous article we talked about predictive AI and how it can be used in the data industry to model human behavior, identify fraud, and predict future events. We also talked about the difficulty with creating predictive models with a lack of ground-truth data. In this article, we’ll talk about deep learning, image classification, […]
How is AI being used in the data industry? Pt. 1
August 9, 2023 – 10:13 am
There has been a lot of talk about AI over the last few months – mostly because of generative AI platforms like ChatGPT, Github Copilot, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E – just to name a few. But how exactly are these technologies being used in the data industry? We’ll answer all of that and more in […]
Bankruptcy Data and Asset Searching
June 7, 2023 – 9:59 am
There are several “flavors” of bankruptcy, commonly known by their chapter number in federal code. A brief overview of the more common ones is as follows: Chapter 7 is for both businesses and consumers. It involves liquidation of assets in order to repay creditors. After the assets have been sold, regardless of whether the debt […]
Bankruptcy Data and PACER
May 30, 2023 – 11:18 am
Bankruptcies data, unlike Liens and Judgements, are collected and maintained on a federal level by the United States Bankruptcy Court and is made available through several pubic sources including PACER (https://pacer.uscourts.gov/)
