Pretty much says it all.

Paris, cos she has a record too.

...this certainly isn't ripe for abuse.

I can only find one company involved in this at the moment, but more will spring up and will inevitably get hacked.

We'll see Gordon & Jacqui's Criminal Records popping up on Wikileaks soon enough, you mark my words...

is spotless. Unfortunately for me, there is a person with the same first two names, surname and date of birth, but a different place, who has spent his life breaking the law and getting progressively longer sentences. The CRB and I are on chatting terms as every time I need to produce a CRB they disobligingly send the other guys' one, even though my record is supposed to be marked for an additional check. I have of course nothing to hide but I hope I get the opportunity to point this out to potential employers when they are emailed the wrong record.

and press enter

But think of the children... Ok, thought of them, now think about the rest of us.

A few years ago I went to an electrical retailer in town to buy a new washing machine. Having chosen the one I wanted, I went to discuss finance options. I was eventually refused credit, on account of a bad debt run up by a previous occupier of my address.

Being told in front of a store full of people (strangers whom I would probably never see again; and not really in front of them, but quietly at a desk in a corner out of the way) that I couldn't have a loan because they were afraid I might not be able to pay it back, was a bit embarrassing.

But at least nobody ever got petrol poured through their letterbox because a member of an Angry Mob thought they were a bad credit risk.

So they've go a new system fo doing it in bulk. Little comfort to the smaller users who have just been kicked out for not using it enough. We were told we had to do 100 a year, which we didn't have any need for, or we would be disenfranchised. And so it came to pass. We had been a satisfactory customer for several years, but because our volume was low we weren't wanted any more. Now we will have to try to find some umbrella organisation to rip us off. Bastards!

Secure DB, oh we won't lose your data or reveal it to anyone, no, no, it's safe with us.

Oh - and we'll put a nice front end on it and publish it on the internet, but we'll use SSL so it'll be ok.

Trust us, it will be fine, if you've nothing to hide....

How long until the first unauthorised access and a newspaper gets some uncomfortable details (probably wrongly recorded) and publishes the safe, private data in the press?

Sheesh! Idiots.

You may be able to apply to the CRB in bulk but the police response for enhanced CRB's is likely to be less than brilliant when the cash cuts hit home. Did you know there is no obligation on the Police to respond to the CRB and no enforced time limits? They have targets, but that does not apply to background checks they don't want to or can't fufill.