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Preventing Careless Data Sharing from Limiting Job Prospects: Gambles, Merck & Compo v. Sterling Infosystems, Inc.

Abuses of Corporate Power

Overview

Towards Justice fights to combat the misuse of big data to harm low-wage workers. Sterling Infosystems, Inc. provides background check services to large employers, including Wal-Mart. Background or credit checks produced by companies like Sterling can reveal intensely personal information and have a significant impact on access to credit and employment prospects. Inaccuracies in background check information are common and have a particularly harsh impact on low-income people and people of color. For example, our clients allege that Sterlingโ€™s background checks provided to potential employers designated untraditional addresses, which are more likely to be used as mailing addresses by low-income people, as โ€œhigh risk indicators,โ€ including addresses that appeared to correspond with hotels, motels, rooming houses, boarding houses, or personal care facilities. Our clients also allege that systematic inaccuracies in Sterlingโ€™s background checks inaccurately suggested that the subject of the background check was transient and moved frequently between addresses. Towards Justice represents the plaintiffs with co-counsel Berger Montague and the Terrell Marshall Law Group, PLLC.

 

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