That's not true at all, for instance a number of the records that are part of the download were indexed by Google.[1] So it's more like going in to your librar

That's not true at all, for instance a number of the records that are part of the download were indexed by Google.[1] So it's more like going in to your library, using the card stack, learning about a book, going to the shelf it is on, and then looking at all the books on the same shelf. Somebody noticed that you were looking at all the books and called the cops on you. The cops break in and arrest you for looking at books. They tell you that the bookshelf is off-limits and has personal information. Sure, the library creates it's own card stack and google is an external service; however if you design websites for a living you expect google to perform that functionality. I mean, I designed a service where we wanted to make it easy to share private information, so we didn't use authorization. However I realized that if I wanted the data to be private I should use a suitably long non-consecutive random ID for the resource. If anyone is guilty of criminal misconduct, it's the person who designed this asinine system or the executive who allowed it to be used on the internet. Hell, I'd go so far as to say that the fact that the exact same system is still being used across the US is a sign that the company who runs the system is criminally negligent. [1] https://evandentremont.com/some-information-on-the-freedom-of-information-hack/ https://evandentremont.com/some-information-on-the-freedom-o...