Criminal Record Privacy & the Structural Risks Inherent within Commercial Storehouses in the Consumer Data Industry

Abstract

With the advent of highly scalable data warehouses, employment screening companies face increasing challenges of delivering efficient and accurate data to sophisticated customer audience while balancing the privacy rights of virtually every working citizen in the United States. To combat the inevitable litigation that stems from consumer rights laws, the consumer data industry must reorganize the methods by which their technological storehouses sort and link personal records to stay compliant with consumer protections. A brief overview of statistical and data science models reveals the challenges in record linkage and providing accurate results to third parties such as employers and housing providers.

Keywords: Consumer Privacy, Data Warehouse, (ETL) Extract, Transform, Load, Record linkage, Record Merging