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Background-Check Software Goes Retail
Makarand writes "According to this article in the Mercury News, ChoicePoint Inc.,
one of the nation's largest vendors of personal, financial and legal data is attempting to
mass market a
background-check software tool-kit which can be used to tap into ChoicePoint's online
databases. Choicepoint requires that you have a business license to run a small business to use this software.
However, as users of these services are rarely audited or asked to produce their business license, the purchaser can potentially
conduct criminal background checks, Social Security number identification and other checks on anyone for a small fee. Privacy advocates are cautioning that making background-check software a consumer product could
easily put personal information into the wrong hands."
This is all public information available at the county court house. I do background checks and all I have to do is get off my fat ass and go there. Please to locate reality before crying about the wrong thing. Thank you.
But isn't that a problem in itself? People should be raising their own children; if you don't have time for that, then you shouldn't have children in the first place.
People should just be responsible parents, rather than have to worry about whether their child care provider is responsible.
evil adrian
There's a huge difference between people like you that only need a babysitter 10% of the time, and the people who put their kids in daycare because they're working. I have a HUGE problem with a household that has both parents working when their child isn't even in school yet.
Having a child is a big responsibility. If you aren't willing to take on the responsibility, you simply shouldn't have the child, end of story. If you don't stay at home and raise and care for your child yourself until it's time for kindergarten, you're a lousy parent, period.
evil adrian
Yeah -- if you spend all of your money on a new car, golf clubs, etc. etc.
It's called scaling back. People do it all the time, whether they have children or not. And it's your responsibility to scale back when you have a child.
evil adrian