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I find it quite scary that whether you can get employed or not is decided on the whim of some company. What if your record is wrong, and they won't fix it? And

• twothamendment 9y ago
  What if they dig up dirt on someone with the same or similar name? My mom can't give blood because of some guy with a name that is one letter different than hers. You'd think a different gender would make it easy to fix - but no, she finally gave up.
  • vhost- 9y ago
    I got served a court summons for someone who shares my name that was being sued for not paying 100k in medical debt to MY WORK. it was super embarrassing and they walked in and threw papers at me. It took me months to get it figured out because the people responsible for serving me just ignored me. They refused to believe they made a pretty massive research mistake. We had different middle names and birth dates.
    • djrogers 9y ago
      > It took me months to get it figured out Either way this would be a PITA, but it seems the easiest thing to do would be to just go ahead and show up in court. The judge would have you there for about 2 minutes before smacking down the lawyer for the side that summoned you, and sent you home. No reason to spend months working it all out...
• optimuspaul 9y ago
  I had to very recently correct my credit report because their happened to be another guy with my same name in another state. it didn't take long but was annoying. I also get a lot of that guys emails, he must have a similar gmail address to mine. super annoying. Sadly his insurance provider leaked a lot of his PII data to me through email. Which is probably still archived on gmail.