Posts Tagged ‘FTC’
Volunteer Background Checks: How to Screen Volunteers the Right Way
September 27th, 2014 by Dodie Murphy
Volunteer background checks, in short: most organizations are not legally required to screen volunteers, but any group that places volunteers near children, the elderly, people with disabilities, money or vehicles should. A sound volunteer screening policy matches the check to the role (criminal and sex-offender records for anyone with access to vulnerable people, a driving […]
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- Tags: background check, background check company, criminal records, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Fair Information Practice Principles, FCRA guidelines, Federal Trade Commission, FIPP, FTC, how to screen volunteers, invasion of privacy, Laws and Regulations, legal liability, negligent hiring, NGO, non-government organization, non-profit business, notice and consent, personally identifiable information, PII, Privacy Act of 1974, screening policy, screening tools, screening volunteers, volunteer work, volunteerism
The Accuracy of Social Media
July 26th, 2014 by Dodie Murphy
With the growing number of people putting out every detail of their lives on social media sites you might consider using social media background checks on your potential employees or tenants. The idea is still somewhat new in this age so you might not know what a social media background check really consists of. As […]
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- Tags: background check, background check company, background check report, employee screening, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, Gizmodo, Mat Honan, SIC, Social Intelligence Corporation, social media background check, social media history, tenant screening
