7 The New Focus on Protecting Personal Identifiable Information

The focus of this chapter is on protecting the information that is gathered during the background screening process. Background screening is a critical tool for organizations to deploy in the fight against workplace violence, employee fraud, sabotage, terrorism, as well as information, identity, and property theft that are plaguing them today. Unfortunately, along with background screening comes the burden and responsibility to protect the information that is collected. With this focus in mind, we believe that to have a background screening program that operates at maximum effectiveness it must be part of a larger business strategy that is focused on protecting the organization’s ...

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