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Europe poves expanded background checks useless
February 23, 2015 - While Democrats, Gabby Giffords, and groups like Moms Demand Action claim that expanding background checks would end mass shootings, The Washington Post looks across the pond and demonstrates that Europe’s expanded background checks prove useless in the face of a booming black market for guns and radicalized Muslims looking to commit terrorist acts. After all, Europe has expanded background checks and enacted near-total gun bans in certain countries, but the Paris and Copenhagen attacks still took place. According to WaPo, in Denmark “handguns and semiautomatic rifles are all but banned.” And hunting rifles can only be owned by people “with squeaky-clean backgrounds who have passed a...
Onfido to help automate the process of background checks
February 23, 2015 - As more services move on-demand, and as more businesses that rely on on-demand workers go global, there’s a growing need for companies in the...
Toronto police criminal-background check backlog puts thousands of jobs and studies in limbo
February 19, 2015 - A “catastrophic” backlog in Toronto police background checks for students, health professionals and other workers could grow worse if t...
Reliable Rides in Nairobi With Launch of Uber
February 19, 2015 - After much speculation Uber, the international smartphone app that seamlessly connects riders to drivers, has launched in Nairobi, Kenya. ...
TSA seizes record 2,212 firearms in 2014
February 18, 2015 - When packing your carry-on luggage, don’t forget to remove your gun. Unless you’ve got permission, not remembering could...
20% of population in the Cayman Isles has a criminal conviction
February 16, 2015 - About 20 per cent of the Cayman Islands population, (10,067 persons), has a criminal conviction according to a Royal Cayman Islands Police Service...
Shimla police gets crime tracking system for effective policing
February 13, 2015 - For having an effective and advanced policing system, police here (Shimla, Himachal Pradesh) has launched a crime tracking system that will enable...
Govt focuses on checking those with criminal past
February 12, 2015 - The government is planning several measures to check the ones with criminal records, particularly the Rohingyas, from landing jobs in Saudi Arabia....
Online Records Can Serve as Evidence in Civil Cases: China Top Court
February 09, 2015 - Information stored in electronic media, such as online conversation records, blogging, texting and even electronic signatures, can serve as evidenc...
Montreal taxi drivers stalled by new background check rules
February 09, 2015 - Some Montreal taxi drivers say long waits for criminal background checks are leaving them unable to drive their cabs. The new rules,...
Attorney general says EU criminal database will help stop offenders entering the UK on visit to Nort
February 06, 2015 - The UK is doing all it can to prevent foreign criminals entering the country – the attorney general said on a visit to Northampton today &nda...
Health practitioners face new international criminal history check
February 05, 2015 - The international criminal history of nurses, midwives and allied health professionals will go under the microscope for the first time. ...
Uber proposes new registration system for South Korea drivers
February 05, 2015 - SEOUL: Online ride-service provider Uber Technologies Inc proposed on Wednesday a new registration system for its drivers in South Korea, seeking t...
Background check of cab drivers in Mumbai
February 04, 2015 - Out of 26,901 taxi drivers who were being investigated by the Mumbai police as part of a character verification drive after the Uber cab rape in Ne...
French dissenters jailed after crackdown on speech that glorifies terrorism
February 03, 2015 - Lawyers and human rights groups have raised concerns over the French government’s crackdown on speech that glorifies terrorism after a series...
Uber to Introduce Driver Background Checks in India
February 02, 2015 - Uber plans to introduce background check procedures for its drivers in India, the company said Thursday evening, in a move that comes weeks after a...
Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather banned from entering Australia
January 30, 2015 - Boxing legend Floyd 'Money' Mayweather Jnr is used to winning, in fact, he's never been beaten inside the ring. However, his biggest fi...
What They Say In Kenya About Background Checks
September 30, 2014 - You have every reason to think twice when the deal is too good, that’s the truth. That’s why I want...
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