Personal Space

How would you feel if your whole life story was put all over the internet for everyone to see? The Fourth Amendment states the right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures. Privacy is such a big issue nowadays that there is an amendment for it, which should be taken seriously. You're not allowed to walk into someone's household without their consent or a warrant out on their arrest, but your able to look them up on the internet and pay monthly payments to view their criminal records, possible sex offenders, and their current and previous address. Basically their entire life is being recorded on the web. I understand that it is good to know about certain people you live around or want to get extra information about but it's not clicking to me as to why it is ok for anybody that doesn't have a licensed authority to bring up your criminal records in defined details with pictures, other family members names that have nothing to do with their crime, certain dates, approximate times, variety of areas in which their crimes took place, and more.

As I search online about background checks the only reasoning behind them are for Job purposes. In fact, 20 percent of organizations conduct criminal background checks on job candidates because they are required to do so by law. If I was a manager for a very high ranking company I would like to know about the person I'm thinking of hiring also, so that alone gives me a good enough reason to find out their history. But judging a book by its cover isn't fair, and if I did mess with the law a couple years ago and changed my ways why should it make it more difficult finding a job, a wife or a husband, or even a nice home in a reserved neighborhood. These are some of the reasons as to why it's hard for people who have made mistakes in the past to move on with their lives without looking back. Random people paying to read into your business without a good enough reason can break people down. If that person is not looking to hire you, bring you in their personal life, or planning on helping you with things that require that type of information, he or she should not be able to access any personal records.

1 in 32 grownups in the U.S. has a criminal record, so that means that there can be at least two people on each street of a nice sized community with a criminal record. Does it really mean that each of these people with a not so great history can really put you and your family in danger to the point where you have to isolate from that person and search them up online? What about ones with a clean slate, are they excluded from ever being a danger to the community just because their files aren't recorded? How can anyone change if in order to change, others need to accept and bring you in to help you change. There are beliefs that a background check could result to illegal discrimination based on the past of a person or the people he or she is associated with in the past. At what point will the line be drawn when dealing with ones invasion of privacy?


Work Cited
www.courtcheck.com/pros.pdf
criminalsearch.wordpress.com/.../pros-and-cons-of-a-background-check/