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Birthdate Redaction: Why Some States Are Slowing Down Your Background Checks (and How to Handle It)

April 6, 20269 min readBy SaffHire Compliance Team
Birthdate Redaction: Why Some States Are Slowing Down Your Background Checks (and How to Handle It)

The Evolution of PII Redaction

For decades, the gold standard for identifying a criminal record was the combination of a full name and a full date of birth. This allowed background screening providers to confirm that a "John Smith" with a 1985 birthdate was indeed the same "John Smith" applying for your open position, rather than one of the hundreds of others with the same name.

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