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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: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08 2017, @09:21PM
Speaking as a veteran who fought in Iraq, and whos primary job was finding and removing roadside bombs made by people living 50 years in the past, I am seriously surprised at how many people underestimate an insurgency. I am also seriously surprised at the number of people who think the government could get even half of the armed forces to fire on other Americans. I actually remember that subject coming up and essentially everyone said they would disobey that order. I would not be surprised to see entire units defecting to the insurgency.
The rank and file military is NOT corrupt in the same way that cops are. Soldiers see civilians as people to be protected, where cops see them as enemies. We did everything in our power to protect even "nonallied noncombatants" from the roadside bombs that were put in on routes not used generally by the allied forces, meaning the real target was other civilians. Try not to ascribe the tendency of cops to the military.