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XinTX wrote:

TexasGal wrote:That is our future if the "compromise" background check bill is passed. I can only imagine the numbers of people who will enter enter sloppy or downright false information.

And here lies a HUGE problem no one is addressing. IF this monstrosity of a bill passes, there will be an ENORMOUS bow wave of data that will have to be entered an little time to do so. So .gov will hire a contractor to do all that additional data entry. Since it will be done on a short schedule, they'll hire people off park benches and, in order to 'get the data entered' any proof reading or fact checking will just be skipped or forgotten.

Oh, and with all these folks hired on the 'quick and cheap', and then giving them access to mounds of personal data, you don't think there would be the possibility of identity theft now would you?

And for those who deny it could happen, I refer you to the annals of the breakup of the Bell System, when companies that used shared databases found out that they would not have that data available after the "cut." They hired temps to input the data off of paper printouts of data already in the systems, into the systems, and there was no proofreading, and the new databases were inviolate and could not be corrected without a formal and complicated procedure that they never allowed anyone to know was there. Just because it happened 30 years ago, doesn't mean it can't or won't again. And some of those "transscriptionists" did indeed make and keep personal copies that got sold to the highest bidders.