No, unless it includes a credit score. These companies are shady and don't follow the law as intended. They would need your permission to store the data in the

No, unless it includes a credit score. These companies are shady and don't follow the law as intended. They would need your permission to store the data in the first place. Hence the journalism "workaround". Proper background checks for criminality are done by the police, who hands the paper to the person the check is done on, and can only be done for roles for which the police are allowed to do those checks for. Like banking and teachers.