Remember ChoicePoint?
Remember how they purged legitimate voters from the Florida voting rolls in 2000?
Remember how they sold personal data (drivers' license numbers) until they were discovered back in 2000?
Well, this morning my friend, who isconsidering applying for a position with the Obama administration, noticed something.
Keep reading...
From the transition team's online application
AUTHORIZATION
During the application process, I hereby authorize ChoicePoint WorkPlace Solutions Inc., on behalf of the Obama Transition Foundation, to procure a consumer report (known as an investigative consumer report in California), which I understand may include information regarding my credit worthiness, credit standing, credit capacity, character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living. This report may
be compiled with information from credit bureaus, courts record repositories, departments of motor vehicles, past or present employers and educational institutions, governmental occupational licensing or registration entities, business or personal references, and any other source required to verify information that I have voluntarily supplied. I understand that I may request a complete and accurate disclosure of the nature and scope of the background verification, to the extent such investigation includes information bearing on my character, general reputation, personal characteristics or mode of living.
Are my friend and I the only ones appalled by this? Maybe it's just an effort to "reach across the aisle," "to be president to all Americas," to hire these (possible) GOP operatives to do background checks on future employees. Whatever the reason, I don't like it.