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• Firm Fined 5,000

  January 01, 2011 - A Canadian federal court judge is ordering a credit agency to pay a man $5,000 for wrongly giving him a bad credit report, the first time damages have been awarded under Canada's privacy law. TransUnion told RBC that Mirza Nammo had bad credit. But the report was actually for a man with a similar name who lived on the same street where Nammo used to live. Nammo had applied for a business loan and RBC turned him down. Federal court Judge Russel Zinn ruled TransUnion broke Canada's privacy laws by collecting wrong information about Nammo, not quickly correcting the mistake and not sending the corrected information to the third party. It's the first award under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic D...

• Ohio Governor Prohibits Offshoring For Public Services

  January 01, 2011 - Ohio Governor Ted Strickland has issued an executive order that prohibits the expenditure of public funds for services provided offshore and beyond...

• Firms Lose More to Electronic Than Physical Theft: Kroll

  January 01, 2011 - The risk consultancy company, Kroll Inc., has released a report on fraud trends around the world. The report found that for the first time ever...

• The Background Investigator Goes To Argentina

  January 01, 2011 - In a continuing series, The Background Investigator, sends its attorneys or experts to various countries around the world to explore the justi...

• Ukraine: Access to Information Law Adopted

  January 01, 2011 - The Ukrainian parliament has adopted an Access to Information Law following a campaign by ARTICLE 19 and partners over the past two years. &nbs...

• Work After Prison - One-Year Findings

  January 01, 2011 - by Joyce Foundation More than 2 million people are incarcerated in the United States, and around 700,000 are released from prison each year....

• Important Notice From Scotland Disclosure

  January 01, 2011 - There are many attempts by USA companies through UK screening firms to order online Basic Disclosures.  This is quite improper as The Scot...

• Background Check Firms Find Zero Hit Ratio With Local Police Search In India

  January 01, 2011 - One joke in India is you can find a criminal record on any politician but you can not find one on an job applicant or employee. Why's that?...

• Straightline Provides Document Retrieval In Saipan And Guam

  January 01, 2011 - Steven Brownstein provides the fastest and the only local public record access service to Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. Based in Saipa...

• Stretching the Truth To Get The Job

  December 01, 2010 - Nearly one in five Canadians (19%) would exaggerate previous responsibilities in order to land a job, according to a poll released by ADP Canada Co...

• Staff Vetting Leaves 70m Bill

  December 01, 2010 - Staff vetting in the health and social care sectors ran up costs of almost £70 million last year, figures have shown. Campaigners claimed...

• The Background Investigator Goes To Argentina

  December 01, 2010 - In a continuing series, The Background Investigator, sends its attorneys to various countries around the world to explore the justice systems and b...

• EEOC Meets To Discuss Credit Reports And Job Applicants

  December 01, 2010 - The EEOC held a public Commission meeting on Wednesday, October 20 to hear testimony from representatives of various groups, social scientists, and...

• Computer Glitch Stalls Orleans Parish Civil Case Listings

  December 01, 2010 - The pace of real estate transactions in Orleans Parish (New Orleans) has slowed to a crawl because of a computer glitch in the Civil District Court...

• Crime Affects Record Number Of Children In Turkey

  December 01, 2010 - A record number of minors have been accused of crimes or otherwise caught up in criminal activity in Turkey over the past year and a half, a recent...

• The Background Investigator Goes To Saipan

  November 01, 2010 - In a continuing series, The Background Investigator, is sending its attorneys to various countries around the world to explore the justice systems...

• Ontario Police Check Backlog Frustrates Many

  November 01, 2010 - When Kate Jarencio applied for a police check in July, she was told it would take eight to 10 weeks. But now, at the beginning of November, there&r...

• Child Sex Crimes Rising Fast In Korea

  December 31, 1969 - Although child sex crimes were committed less frequently in Korea than other major countries, the growth rate here had been higher in recent years,...