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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
The FBI's Rap Back program is quietly transforming the way employers conduct background checks. While routine background checks provide employers with a one-time "snapshot" of their employee's past criminal history, employers enrolled in federal and state Rap Back programs receive ongoing, real-time notifications and updates about their employees' run-ins with law enforcement, including arrests at protests and charges that do not end up in convictions. ("Rap" is an acronym for Record of Arrest and Prosecution; "Back" is short for background.) Testifying before Congress about the program in 2015, FBI Director James Comey explained some limits of regular background checks: "People are clean when they first go in, then they get in trouble five years down the road [and] never tell the daycare about this."
A majority of states already have their own databases that they use for background checks and have accessed in-state Rap Back programs since at least 2007; states and agencies now partnering with the federal government will be entering their data into the FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) database. The NGI database, widely considered to be the world's largest biometric database, allows federal and state agencies to search more than 70 million civil fingerprints submitted for background checks alongside over 50 million prints submitted for criminal purposes. In July 2015, Utah became the first state to join the federal Rap Back program. Last April, aviation workers at Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport and Boston Logan International Airport began participating in a federal Rap Back pilot program for aviation employees. Two weeks ago, Texas submitted its first request to the federal criminal Rap Back system.
Rap Back has been advertised by the FBI as an effort to target individuals in "positions of trust," such as those who work with children, the elderly, and the disabled. According to a Rap Back spokesperson, however, there are no formal limits as to "which populations of individuals can be enrolled in the Rap Back Service." Civil liberties advocates fear that under Trump's administration the program will grow with serious consequences for employee privacy, accuracy of records, and fair employment practices.
Rap Back Privacy Impact Assessment
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08 2017, @08:44PM
Of course, there are hundreds of ethical standards intended to apply specifically to elected officials, some explicitly listed in the constitution.
Recent events have shown us that they will only be applied to political leaders who accept them willingly, not fascists.
Let's not dance around. What are you saying?
Are you saying that President Trump has violated ethical standards explicitly listed in the Constitution? If so, which ones?
Are you saying that President Trump has violated ethical standards explicitly enumerated in law? If so, which ones?
Are you saying that President Trump has violated unwritten and understood ethical standards? Well, I'll fully agree to that one without a citation needed, but can you really impeach and convict a person purely on an unwritten social convention?
I'm very suspicious of President Trump... but if you have an actual accusation, then out with it.
(Score: 4, Informative) by ikanreed on Wednesday February 08 2017, @08:48PM
Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8
And the details of how having substantial foreign investments still under personal, private control represent an avenue for unconstitutional gifts to granted from a foreign power to an officer of the United States. You know exactly how that works.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday February 08 2017, @08:49PM
He appears to be currently accepting payments from foreign nationals.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.