What's the alternative to public conviction information? Secret trials?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...
So it becomes a secret that the trial happened?
And I've been background checked for jobs I've had in Europe, even normal civilian jobs.
It's not airtight, but it wouldn't need to be to alleviate the problem. It would restrict what mainstream background check providers could offer.
There's got to be a method for redemption and being recognized as redeemed. The issue today is that hiring processes are not really fair, they can't be objectively run with subjective measures and random entropy pools. If hiring were fair and redeemed people treated the same as never convicted people then there wouldn't be a need for the EU's current bandaid.
Surely forgiveness, rather than feigned amnesia?
As is obvious from the attitudes in this thread, legally enforced amnesia is the only practical solution.