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Re:Background checks pay for Checkr, which just raised $100M by crx087 on Thursday April 12, 2018 @07:10PM (#16825781)
> our customers are in [government] and require us to commit to background checks on everyone we hire

That really -- and especially -- sounds like it should be an illegal form of civil rights abuse.

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Re:Background checks pay for Checkr, which just raised $100M by djrogers on Thursday April 12, 2018 @08:03PM (#16826024)
Why? Verifying the veracity of information on a job application with public records seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do, and nowhere in the realm of 'civil rights abuse'.
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