So this was only going to be a matter of time before this was going to happen. A company by the name of PeopleFinders has developed two iphone apps that allow users to conduct background checks on individuals you encounter. It’s supposedly geared towards people who want to look up their dates.

Once the user thinks they’ve found their match, they can then access all of PeopleFinders’ records on them and learn whether they own property, whether they have a stable address history, whether they’ve ever gone bankrupt, whether they’re married or are in a possible relationship and whether they have a criminal background or are registered as a sex offender.

So it seems as though it’s a good idea, however in addition to paying $0.99 for the app you don’t get the real meat of the records your searching until you cough up the dough.

While both of the applications the company debuted today cost a mere $0.99 to download, users can only access records by either paying $9.95 per record or by paying an annual subscription fee of $24.95.

So all in all it’s a clever way to leverage the iphone and it’s capabilites, and to use the data from our industry in a helpful manner even if it does cost $9.95 per record or $24.95 for the year. You should decide how much you’ll be using the service.

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