BUSINESS INSURANCE - Sep 11 - Match.com's recent announcement that it has begun screening its members for registered sex offenders has some legal experts wondering if the company has opened itself up to a wave of new liability exposures. Considering the ease with which a person could fake an identity or otherwise hide criminal convictions to gain access to the site, it is only a matter of time before Match.com faces another lawsuit. Even if checking registries could prevent all sex offenders from accessing the site, those checks would not prevent other violent criminals from opening accounts and setting up dates, experts say. Match.com has insisted that conducting the screening is by no means a promise of safety or a database free of sex offenders.
by Matt Dunning
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This is the double edged sword of background checks. The national databases of sex offendors and felons are more complete now, but they're still not that tough to dupe. The most dangerous people are the ones that have not been caught.
Posted by: Mark Brooks | Sep 13, 2011 at 12:51 PM