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15 July 2004

Sex & The City Paper: Ads Under Fire

ThePittsburghChannel.Com
"Dating services, massage parlors, escort services and chat lines are among the businesses that typically pay for space in the paper, which is distributed for free in boxes and racks throughout the Pittsburgh area." ..."While the diocese doesn't allege any laws are being violated, it suggests the City Paper pull sexual ads or run a "parental advisory" image on the front page."


Are you flirting with a felon?
New online dating service boasts of background checks
By Bob Sullivan
Technology correspondent -- MSNBC

"...True uses Investigation Technologies' Rapsheets.com to do the vetting, a firm recently acquired by database aggregator ChoicePoint. ChoicePoint, a spin-off of credit reporting agency Equifax, supplies insurance firms with background information on everything from car accidents to home water damage claims, helping the insurance industry set premiums. ChoicePoint also offers its own criminal background check service.
Rapsheets' spokeswoman Camile Gamble says the company has a vast database of over 175 million criminal convictions, both felonies and misdemeanors..."

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