You can conduct a public people search anytime twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, online via the Internet.
Many privacy advocates have raised the concern that making this information available to the general public is a violation of our rights to privacy.
What they do not realize, however, is that the information contained in a public people search is based on information, as the name implies, that is already public.
Many privacy advocates have raised the concern that making this information available to the general public is a violation of our rights to privacy.
What they do not realize, however, is that the information contained in a public people search is based on information, as the name implies, that is already public.
Your birth records are available for anyone in the general public to search.
If you get married or divorced, it becomes a matter of public record.
If you buy or sell a house, it becomes public information.
If you commit a crime, your criminal record is accessible to anyone who inquires about it.
Even if you declare bankruptcy, your information is publicly available.
If you do not believe this to be true, you can pay a visit to your local courthouse and see for yourself.
Thus there is no issue of privacy violation here.
The only things a background check does not contain are your credit report and your personal financial information such as bank accounts.
The information is out there for the consumption of the general public.