Re: Technical author leading resistance to background checks at NASA

[Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>]

If the person doing the checking doesn't make it clear that any 
questions are routine and related to employment, then the process can 
damage a person's reputation. Picture the FBI knocking on your door and 
asking you to tell them about the guy next door. I'd probably 
subsequently be stand-offish with a neighbor that the FBI had showed me 
their unspecified interest in.

Ned "Let's see your badge."
doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com

Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
> I doubt that this is going to go anywhere.  Government 
> investigators are not violating Constitutional rights by 
> going out and digging into peoples' personal information
> without probable cause or their consent.  The consequence
> of refusal to authorize the checks is that the employees are
> now deciding not to agree to the revised terms of their 
> employment.  There's a pretty good chance that the
> enhanced background checks will be a useless and
> expensive government boondoggle (it is, after all, the
> government, and they specialize in that), or that the data
> collected may be somehow misused or carelessly 
> handled resulting in someone getting their identity 
> stolen, but until/unless that happens, there probably
> isn't any case.
> 
> Gene Kim-Eng
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> She seems like a smart lady. I'm inclined to agree that she knows what
>> she's doing.
> 
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