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Originally Posted by Conor Ryan
I highly recommend watching the John Oliver bit on Credit Reporting
Short story, credit reports are being used for things that aren't credit related and this is bad. FIRST (or a volunteer background checking organization) has no reason to review a document that describes my propensity to pay under the guise of a background check. We have a fundamentally bad system here and constitutionally no protections to prohibit the practice. |
But FIRST, nor their background check company is not reviewing your credit report because they aren't pulling one. The reason that they want your SSN is to try and make sure you aren't confused with another Conor Ryan, or maybe Connor Ryan. Sure that other Conor Ryan's arrest may have been several states away but they have no way of knowing it wasn't you when you happened to be visiting there.
Note I'm not saying that you should give your SSN just that there is a good reason they would want it to confirm whether the data is actually about the person who they are checking and not someone with the same or similar name.