Data strategy articles
Let’s say, someone on your team finds a public website with data that looks useful.
But before anyone commits engineering time, there are usually a few questions:
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Let’s say, you run a background screening platform.
You pull data from courts, registries, vendors, and public sources. Some day, you discover that one person shows up three times in your system:
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A 2024 peer-reviewed study in Criminology found that about 60% of people had at least one false positive in their reports, and nearly 90% had at least one false negative. So they’re systemic issues you have to design around.
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In 2021, California courts removed date-of-birth information from online search portals to address privacy concerns. For background screening companies, that single change broke long-standing identity matching workflows overnight.
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The background screening industry is going through another year of change. Global economic landscape, consolidations, new regulations, and fast-moving technology are all shaping how companies compete.
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