Volunter Verification

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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

We get it. You're rich and give a lot of money to FIRST. But I have to ask... what does that have to do with ANYTHING?

FIRST didn't decide what information was needed to perform a background check. They hired a company to handle background checks for them, and set up to collect the info the company told them they need. As many others have said, if it's really that big of a deal for you, don't provide your SSN. If the data they're collecting without it is that big of a deal, don't volunteer. It really is that simple. I know FIRST has lost long-time volunteers when they started the background checks, that's just the reality we live in. deal with it.

Again...the fact I can pass the checks is the reason I am the perfect one to bring it up. Also 'rich' would be quite relative. My income is easily dwarfed. My credit report, and especially my credit score, could be achieved by a college student on a $20k income (just obey the established guidelines as much as possible).

The point is apparent. I routinely undergo background checks where refusing to provide an SSN would be an automatic failure. To suggest it is 'apparent' I should do something that in this one case might result in someone not doing something I can not predict based on the guidance provided by FIRST is illogical.

Volunteering should not be a game of gotcha. If FIRST gets my credit report I demand (this is not a joke to me) to know how it is being used, protected and what the ramifications are. My work secures the financial lives of millions. You wanna know what qualifies me to do that? I take my job freaking as seriously as a heart attack. Cause once you let it get sloppy you increase risk.

What is at stake here? If my credit report is breached I loose access to my credit, my bills go up do to a lower credit score, I loose control over my life. Even at my level that 1 ms breach can turn my life into hell in less than a week with consequences going on for years. At a lower level of financial income that breach may bring pain to your life for decades. Still sound like something you want to play with considering we can not keep spam off ChiefDelphi or the FIRSTInspires website running? In the end a breach does not benefit FIRST either because the reputational harm will ripple.

Seriously, DO NOT put your SSN into the volunteer website till FIRST discloses publicly: how they use your credit report, how they safe gaurd it and the process is described correctly.