A fact about Choicepoint

[madaboutharry]

Choicepoint also runs background checks on new employees. I recently reviewed a job application where it stated that a background check would be run by Choicepoint. This was for a very progressive company. I never filled it out because the available hours did not work into my time schedule. But, I was really rather disturbed by this information. The company is very involved in helping homeless and battered women and obviously has no clue about Choicepoint.

[durrrty libby]

1. What info is in a background check? n/t

[Recursion]

2. I used to work for a choicepoint partner

And we processed a lot of that data.

Mainly, it's:
1. Credit information
2. Police history
3. Duration of residence addresses

[durrrty libby]

4. Thanks

What kind of credit info?

Is it things like what credit cards you have, and your score?

[Recursion]

5. Not quite that detailed

Rough numbers about how much you owe, what your payments are, any deliquencies.

[EVDebs]

3. So how inaccurate was that ChoicePoint database ?

ChoicePoint submitted false DNA data according to Greg Palast's reporting on them

and this story by CSMonitor shows how background checks by a Republican-controlled company can be abused

Who is checking the background checkers?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1128/p13s02-wmgn.html