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 […]
Category Archives: Background Checking
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/)
Lien and Judgment Data
May 23, 2023 – 9:52 am
Liens and judgments are legal claims made against an individual or business for failure to pay debts owed to creditors. Private companies often collect this information through various methods such as searching public records, conducting interviews, or purchasing data from other sources. The information is then compiled into databases that can be accessed by potential […]
Texas DPS’s Big Oops!
May 15, 2023 – 10:47 am
On February 27th 2023, The Texas Tribune reported that the Texas DPS (Department of Public Safety) accidentally sent more than 3,000 drivers licenses to an organized crime group which was targeting Asian Texas. Read the full article here: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/02/27/texas-drivers-license-theft-dps/ That’s a lot to unpack! How did this happen, how did they discover it, and what […]
Data Classification: Public Data
May 9, 2023 – 11:47 am
So far in this series of Data Classification articles, we’ve talked about each type of data at a glance and have gone in depth on Consumer Marketing Data. This time we’re going to take a deep dive into Public Data. Though the name implies that the data is publicly available (and therefore unrestricted), when we […]
What are the different types of data?
April 24, 2023 – 10:35 am
In our line of work, there are many classifications of data available for consumption. In this article we’ll outline each of the major types at a high level. In the subsequent articles, we’ll dive deep into each of them to talk about the nuances involved with each. We should also make it clear that there […]
Human Trafficking Offenses in Background Checks
April 10, 2023 – 9:37 am
Within the last year, the FCRA (Fair Credit Reporting Act) was revised to include a new section, 15 US Code § 1681c-3, titled “Adverse information in cases of trafficking” What this section states is that when a victim of human trafficking commits a crime in connection with their trafficking, that crime may no longer […]
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