Compliancy issues need to be better defined to fully understand the issues that beset a pre-employment screening company.
Actually, the issues are quite clear and simple - easy to understand.
Privacy laws cover personal data. That is information about an individual regardless of where it is stored. Many countries enacted privacy data regulations to protect the individual. Remember that, it is to protect the individual and not the government.
Personal data is about the person. To access another's personal data what is needed is consent. That is it. There is no regulation to prevent any individual from giving you their information. There is no regulation preventing an individual to give you the right to any their information. Anywhere.
Perhaps the one issue that confuses pre-employment screeners the most is information regulation. Information regulation is simply that - the regulation of dissemination of information by a government to whomever the regulation is directed, business or personal. That is, such as, not allowing a third party access to another's information.
The reasons for the regulations are varied. The regulations can be to protect the government, as in a dictatorship, or the government can regulate information under the pretext of protecting the individual.
Regardless, there is no regulation anywhere that prohibits an individual from allowing another the access to their information. In other words, a person can hand you any document of theirs they please. Their is no regulation anywhere barring that.
Data privacy and information regulation are two separate things. It is only when one lumps data privacy incorrectly with information regulation or vice-versa that confusion sets in.
Actually, the issues are quite clear and simple - easy to understand.
Privacy laws cover personal data. That is information about an individual regardless of where it is stored. Many countries enacted privacy data regulations to protect the individual. Remember that, it is to protect the individual and not the government.
Personal data is about the person. To access another's personal data what is needed is consent. That is it. There is no regulation to prevent any individual from giving you their information. There is no regulation preventing an individual to give you the right to any their information. Anywhere.
Perhaps the one issue that confuses pre-employment screeners the most is information regulation. Information regulation is simply that - the regulation of dissemination of information by a government to whomever the regulation is directed, business or personal. That is, such as, not allowing a third party access to another's information.
The reasons for the regulations are varied. The regulations can be to protect the government, as in a dictatorship, or the government can regulate information under the pretext of protecting the individual.
Regardless, there is no regulation anywhere that prohibits an individual from allowing another the access to their information. In other words, a person can hand you any document of theirs they please. Their is no regulation anywhere barring that.
Data privacy and information regulation are two separate things. It is only when one lumps data privacy incorrectly with information regulation or vice-versa that confusion sets in.
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