Among the drivers in Uber's service were a convicted murderer and a felon convicted of sex offenses against a minor, prosecutors charge. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been ...

Every employer wants to promote and sustain a safe workplace. One way in which employers try to accomplish this goal is to conduct background checks on its applicants or new hires to assess whether ...

From a dog walker to a date to a babysitter, many Americans look for reassurance that the person they are letting into their homes or lives is who they say they are. To help find that reassurance, ...

Criminal background checks are sometimes seen as the cornerstone of workplace safety. These audits show felony and misdemeanor convictions, pending criminal cases and incarceration history as an adult ...

Adult platform OnlyFans will start conducting criminal background checks for U.S. creators, its CEO, Keily Blair, recently shared on LinkedIn. The AI-powered screener, however, has proved to be ...

Whether you’re a landlord vetting a potential tenant or a business owner hiring new staff, today’s background check services ...

The platform's CEO shared the news on social media, noting that a background screener with a troubled legal history would be used.

Background checks help employers build safe, reliable, and trustworthy teams, but only when performed carefully and ...

For employers and HR professionals, hiring the right talent involves balancing an employer’s need for workplace safety against Pennsylvania’s ...

In the past year, alleged assaults on passengers by Uber drivers in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, and other cities have called into question whether Uber’s employment screening procedures are ...

One of the bedrock principles of the criminal justice system is that, with limited exceptions, offenders return to society as full members with all rights and privileges restored after their ...

The government's lawsuits against BMW and Dollar General over using criminal background checks to screen employees represents an aggressive new assertion of the disparate impact theory of ...