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Companies that use credit reports as an employment screen seem generally reluctant to talk about how or why they use them.
Most of the state laws curbing the use of credit reports as an employment screen carve out exceptions for people applying for supervisory positions or executive positions inside a financial institution.
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The purchase will allow Kroll to offer mortgage and consumer credit reports and employment screening to businesses and consumers.
Six companies were warned by the F.T.C. about their apparent willingness to sell consumer information for employment screening.
Employers don't use credit scores in employment screening, but they can and do access credit reports.
G4S maintains that Mateen's employment screening met company standards, and said they received employment verification from a total of four of Mateen's previous employers.
About 15 years ago he approached the C.I.A and offered to teach people how to lie in an employment screening, to test security flaws.
One of those companies, Spokeo, recently agreed to settle charges with the government that it had violated federal law by selling consumers' personal data for employment screening.
The action is the F.T.C.'s first case addressing the sale of Internet and social media data for use in employment screening.
The findings are of interest, the researchers say, because many companies conduct credit checks on potential new hires as part of the employment screening process.
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