{"id":180482,"date":"2017-04-05T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/05\/oh-snap-27\/"},"modified":"2017-04-05T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T22:01:00","slug":"oh-snap-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/05\/oh-snap-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Snap!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Massachusetts instituted background for &#8220;ride sharing&#8221; drivers, and <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/04\/8000-uber-and-lyft-drivers-fail-state-background-check\/\">over 10% failed the check<\/a>:<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/>More than 8,000 Massachusetts residents who want to drive for ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft won&#8217;t be allowed to, because they didn&#8217;t pass a new background check system that operates in that state.<\/p>\n<p>Most were rejected because they had suspended licenses or hadn&#8217;t been driving for long enough to qualify, according to a report on the matter in <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2017\/04\/05\/uber-lyft-ride-hailing-drivers-fail-new-background-checks\/aX3pQy6Q0pJvbtKZKw9fON\/story.html\">The Boston Globe<\/a><\/i>. But hundreds had committed serious crimes, including violent crimes and sexual crimes. 51 applicants were registered sex offenders. Others had convictions for drunk driving or reckless driving.<\/p>\n<p>The checks came about because Massachusetts passed a new law regulating ride-sharing companies, which required a background check run by the state government, in addition to the companies&#8217; own background checks. The state checks began in January, and the results were announced yesterday. Out of the 70,789 drivers who went through the state application process, 8,206 were rejected.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under Massachusetts law, Lyft\u2019s commercial background check provider, like all consumer reporting agencies, is legally prevented from looking back further than seven years into driver applicants\u2019 histories,&#8221; Lyft said in a statement to the Globe. &#8220;The state does not face the same limitation, which likely explains why a small percentage of our drivers failed the state\u2019s background check while passing ours.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note how most were simply unqualified to drive a hack, which <u><b>IS<\/b><\/u> something that should be picked up in a, &#8220;Lyft\u2019s commercial background check.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lyft did not want to catch this, so they paid for a search that didn&#8217;t, otherwise they would have caught the folks who lacked sufficient driving experience to qualify.<\/p>\n<p>Lyft and Uber did this because they thought that they could get away with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts instituted background for &#8220;ride sharing&#8221; drivers, and over 10% failed the check: More than 8,000 Massachusetts residents who want to drive for ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft won&#8217;t be allowed to, because they didn&#8217;t pass a new background check system that operates in that state. Most were rejected because they had suspended licenses &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,588,437,471],"class_list":["post-180482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-fail","tag-regulation","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}