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Most businesses that run background checks believe they follow the rules. They have a process, they have forms and someone on the team handles it. Then a lawsuit arrives. The gaps become impossible to ignore. The Fair Credit Reporting Act does not grade on effort. It...
Observing that data brokers, data aggregators, and platforms share a characteristic common with consumer reporting agencies – i.e., they collect and sell personal data – the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a formal Request for Information (“RFI”) on March...
As many of my readers are aware, the City of Seattle enacted an ordinance in 2017 prohibiting landlords from inquiring about the criminal history information of tenants (or prospective tenants) or from taking any sort of adverse action against them for having criminal...
California Senate Bill 809 would repeal California’s Fair Chance Act of 2017 and replace it with a new Fair Chance Act. This Act would make it an unlawful employment practice for a California employer to – among other things – consider or even inquire about an...
Lately, there has been a lot of talk about AI – artificial intelligence. As an avid reader of Sci-Fi, I take exception to the use of that term. These software applications may be artificial, but they aren’t intelligent. We are a long way away from R. Daneel Olivaw....
I’ll cut straight to the allegations ~ Every employee of Ring and its Ukraine-based third-party contractor had access to every Ring customer’s videos. For cameras outside and inside the home. Between June and August of 2017, a Ring employee viewed thousands of records...
As my readers will know, when completing a Form I-9, an employer must physically inspect the identity and work authorization documents provided by the new hire to assess whether they appear to be genuine and relate to the worker presenting them. With the advent of...
California's Office of Administrative Law has just approved an amendment to California's Employment Regulations Relating to Criminal History and the amendment goes into effect October 1, 2023. 2 CCR 11017.1. This regulation is also known as California's Fair Chance...