> This is one of those things some people are okay with, up until the point where they get bitten by it. > I think even you'd be upset if you started losing ou

> This is one of those things some people are okay with, up until the point where they get bitten by it. > I think even you'd be upset if you started losing out on job opportunities because one of these services confused you with a convict of a similar name or address. Wait a sec, though. I think significantly fewer people (read: almost no people) are "okay with" misinformation being reported about them, than are okay with actual information about their history being reported. There are three separate cases here: (1) accurate information regarding whether a applicant is a potentially good customer based on their history, (2) accidentally inaccurate information about that, and (3) fraudulently inaccurate information about that. The "some people" who are okay with "this" are okay with the first. If you have to lump the second and third in to drum up outrage, maybe that's a sign that the outrage is not all that appropriate.