How far will employers go to background check candidates?

Yesterday on CNN I saw an interview with Kevin O'Leary in which he talked about how participation in university protests can harm a young person's future employment prospects. I was troubled by his statement that employers will pay about $4,000 to do something he called a "dark dive" into a person's past. The part that troubled me the most was his reference to using the dark web as part of this background check. The information available on the dark web …

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