UK database blacklist of "suspicious" store clerks includes people never charged or convicted
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Bugs sez, Several large UK retail firms are due to launch a database containing details of staff who've been accused of "stealing, forgery, fraud, damaging company property or causing a loss to their employers and suppliers." This is intended as a closed, privately-run addition to the police background checks already offered by the state-run Criminal Records Bearau. Crucially, the new database will...
