infamy. 1  very bad reputation; notoriety; disgrace; dishonor. 2  the quality of being infamous; great wickedness. 3  an infamous act. 4  Law loss of character and of certain civil rights sustained by a person convicted of an infamous crime.
What is the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act? The Minnesota Government Data Practices Act (MGDPA), Minn. Stat. Â§ 13, is a state law that controls how government data are collected, created, stored (maintained), used and released (disseminated).
The FCRA (Fair Credit Reporting Act), which is the primary federal law regulating background screening, limits the information a third party such as a credit bureau or a background check firm can pass on to an employer. Section 605 of the FCRA prohibits a background screening company from reporting the following: 1  Bankruptcy cases that antedate the report by more than 10 years. 2  Paid tax liens that antedate the report by more than seven years. 3  Accounts placed for collection or charged to profit and loss that antedate the report by more than seven years.