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Do You Know Who’s Watching Your Kids?

School is one of the most important aspects in a child’s life. It teaches them the basic skills necessary to get by in the world. Reading, arithmetic, and science are play a part in the building process of a child’s brain. School is really the first chance a child has to make friends and learn [...]

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Beware of Criminal Identity Theft!

Criminal identity theft, also known as “criminal identity fraud” fortunately is rare, but it has happened. Once your name ends up in a criminal records database, it can be a sonofabitch to clear your name, if not next to impossible. Unfortunately, today’s criminal justice system is still of little help to victims whose names end [...]

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I can’t get a security clearance!

(an actual real-life situation)
Question: I have been looking for computer programming work for over the past year, but nobody’s hiring. At first I blamed in on “the Bush recession,” age discrimination, and outsourcing to India, but now I think it’s my wife’s felony conviction that’s could be the problem. I have an impressive resume and [...]

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Bushwhacked Army

Never since Vietnam, our US Army is staining to the breaking point to keep up with unsustainable demands. Gen. Colin Powell once declared the Army is “about broken.”
The Army is relaxing it’s admissions standards, allowing new recruits previously unfit to join. First the Army raised it’s max recruiting age from 35 to 40, then to [...]

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private security guards

Private security guards poor pay and lack of training and background checks poses security risk. Private security guards who are guarding many critical high-security sites throughout the US are paid little more than minimum wage and have little or no terrorist training according to an AP investigation.
9-11 has transformed the nation’s force of “rent-a-cops” into [...]

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post employment background checks

When being considered for hiring with a company, most people can expect to be subjected to a post-employment background check, but few companies run post-employment background checks on existing employees, (credit and criminal) including long-time employees who have worked for their company for a long time.
While a new employee may start work with a [...]

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Should military bases outsource security to civilians?

Surprisingly, since 9-11, some of America’s most sensitive military bases, including Ft Bragg NC, and White Sands NM continue to outsource base security to private security guard firms.
This is raising much concern regarding the calibre and quality of private guards, both in the government and private sector. The question is, when is a job to [...]

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Your private information easily found online!

Back in the old days before the internet, if somebody wanted to stalk you, he would have physically track you down the old fashioned way. Today the internet has changed all of that.
To many people including myself, the internet is one of Mankind’s greatest inventions! Afterall it has opened many exciting new opportunities that never [...]

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US Army recruiting ex-cons

Facing a serious recruiting shortage due to the ongoing War in Iraq, the US Army is recruiting convicted criminals.

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DMV Records divulged to identity thieves!

Georgia data broker Choicepoint confessed to divulging the personal records of 162,000 people to Los Angeles identity thieves. The company claimed it too was a victim, although their sloppy procedures were responsible. A Nigerian later plead guilty in the case, after he found it ridiculously easy to steal the information. Choicepoint claimed they requested the [...]

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