Always read their fine print: "FriendChecker is a product of HD Publishing Group, America's first online people search since 1996, and is powered by Exploreos. FriendChecker is neither endorsed by Facebook nor a Facebook app. Service is only applicable to domestic United States friends. Do not use FriendChecker as a substitute for your own screening of friends. While we make an effort to provide the most helpful information we can, we do not represent the results we provide will be 100% up to date. There may be a criminal history or other records that are not present in our results for a variety of reasons, and users should be aware of such possibilities."6-21-2011 National:
So to begin with, you must allow HD Publishing access to your Facebook account, then pay them a MONTHLY FEE for a check of your friends WHEN YOU TELL THEM TO CHECK YOUR FRIENDS, this is not a automatic check a friend when you add one. Yes, they allow you to cancel their service, but if you do and then add new FRIENDS, you are back to signing up again. Or as they really want you to do, pay the MONTHLY FEE and rarely use their service.
What they do not point out, assume you use their service to check your friends on 1-1-2011 (or any other date) and their report shows ALL CLEAR. Can someone be convicted of a crime the day after? (See their FAQ) What if you were the victim of that crime? Guess what, read the fine print, HD Publishing assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of their checking, on the day you run it, or afterwards.
"Public court records, once protected by what the Supreme Court called the "practical obscurity" of the nation's decentralized justice system, are now digitized and sold to private companies. Some of those companies compile them into databases of millions of public records. According to government reports and consumer lawsuits, those databases often contain inaccuracies, reporting criminal convictions for people who have never been arrested and records that should have been expunged."So if you are one of the many paranoid folks in society, with tons of money to waste, go for it, but remember, registered sex offenders are the ones that got caught. How many criminals -non sex offender types- have yet to be caught and have no criminal record, at the present time?
FriendChecker Screens All Facebook Friends with Just Two Clicks
Do you really know the background of all of your Facebook friends? Are they criminals or possibly even registered sexual predators? We all use anti-virus software to protect ourselves, but shouldn’t we also be screening online Facebook friends to protect our private information from getting in the wrong hands?
There are too many ways that information you share can place you and your family at risk. There are also very disturbing findings about children and Facebook. Of the 20 million minors who actively used Facebook in the last year, 7.5 million, or more than one third, were younger than 13 and not even supposed to be using the site. Consumer Reports, June 2011, also says that one million children were harassed, threatened or subjected to other forms of cyber-bullying on Facebook in the past year.
HD Publishing Group, America’s first online people search, has launch FriendChecker, the missing piece in social networking. Anti-virus software protects against the unknown threat, and FriendChecker provides the equivalent solution for social networking. FriendChecker regularly compares your friend list with millions of criminal and sexual predator records.
Jerry M. Klein, CEO of HD Publishing Group said,”We have developed a unique patent-pending, totally anonymous process that solves the problem, and no one will know you are checking. FriendChecker notifies the user if a friend is a match with known criminals or sexual predators and provides additional background details on demand. The automated process is a simple two-click implementation and conducts continued surveillance of the user’s friends in the background, similar to anti-virus software. Just think how easy it is for someone to translate your personal information, like your pet’s name or first elementary school, into the keys that unlock your bank account.”
Since Facebook doesn’t require a credit card to register, there really is little that can be done to protect children on Facebook. FriendChecker fills that need and provides parental control notification if there is a match with a potential threat. ..Source.. by PR Web.com
