Lawsuits allege gig-economy workers fall victim to Checkr's artificial intelligence

The Virginia-based law firm Consumer Litigation Associates has represented several clients suing Checkr. In their complaints, the firm's attorneys write that documents released during discovery will show that Checkr uses "webscrape technology" to gather records from court and county websites and then "compiles this information, without checking the accuracy of its computerized record gathering and populates the information into reports … with no human being involved in the compiling, matching, and reporting of criminal-history information."