Comment by themafia
3 days ago
> they're not demanding that people proactively implement a system to prevent it from happening, are they?
What do you think a "background check" is?
3 days ago
> they're not demanding that people proactively implement a system to prevent it from happening, are they?
What do you think a "background check" is?
Definitely not murder prevention
That's absolutely what they are. That and other crimes. That's why they're mandatory, by law, in certain industries. That's _precisely_ why we started using them: to prevent the easily preventable.
I suppose this logic stands in the way of a corporation getting what it wants and so it's automatically offensive to the HN "job seeking" crowd; however, even a basic reading of the history shows it's completely true.