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Full text search on 400M US court cases
- kontxt 6y agoSuper cool--and very fast! Anyone looking to collaborate on these can easily add Kontxt (https://www.kontxt.io https://www.kontxt.io) right on to them and have localized discussions directly on page-parts.
- richardbarosky 6y agoThanks. I saw your post on reddit a while back. Was going to ask about your tech stack.
- kontxt 6y agoI used React client-side, Node server-side, and MySQL as the db. I only mentioned Kontxt here because I demoed it for Thomson Reuters because it could be helpful for their legal professionals as a collaboration tool after they find documents via their WestLaw legal search product, and your tool reminded me of it. I actually used Kontxt as a sales pitch to highlight their annual report and add some calculations and explanations about how much money they could make. Nice work, again!
- nkw 6y agoYou might consider giving credit to the sources of data used to make this.
- wtvanhest 6y agoIt is all be public records. The source of the original data is the court system. If a 3rd party physically scrapped it from the court system, others should be able to digitally scrape it.
- richardbarosky 6y agoAll the data is from government databases directly, aside from CourtListener, which was recently integrated. It would be good to specifically mention CourtListener's contribution.
- aschatten 6y agoHow did you get all that data from government databases directly? Do they provide some sort an API for bulk export?
- nautical 6y agoResults like "MEETING ID" and "PASSWORD" for zoom meetings show up way more than any other video conferencing tool for 2020 cases.
- nautical 6y agoMany Zoom meetings are recurring and this might not be safe
- programbreeding 6y agoLooked at one record as an example and sure enough, the same meeting ID and password is found in 709 different cases in Cleveland, OH.
- caseyscottmckay 6y agoThis is courtlistener.com data correct?
- richardbarosky 6y agoFrom other comment: CourtListener has about 4 million opinions, which are included. On top of that, 435 million additional cases from throughout the US.
- caseyscottmckay 6y agoInteresting. Any stats/aggregations on numbers per resource type (e.g., 56k for scotus, 36k for D.C. Circuit Court etc)?
- ikeboy 6y agoI don't see a breakdown by source. What does this have that courtlistener doesn't, for example?
- richardbarosky 6y agoCourtListener has about 4 million opinions, which are included. On top of that, 435 million additional cases from throughout the US.
- ikeboy 6y agoWhere are they getting public domain opinions that CL doesn't have? Are these states or counties that CL doesn't scrape? It would be nice to have a breakdown by jurisdiction. Also, by "case" do you mean "opinions"? Full disclosure, I've written and contributed to several scrapers for CL, and if there's a large source they're missing I'd like to know. Note that the CL opinion number you're quoting doesn't include orders from Federal courts that are in the RECAP collection, which accounts for several million additional opinions.
- pashabitz 6y agoI wasn't trying to be an asshole, just honestly searched for "javascript". Was disappointed :)
- richardbarosky 6y agoLooking at the results, those all appear to be from CourtListener's bulk data.
- Thorrez 6y agoThere are only 532 cases, so it's not too bad.
- bpeebles 6y agoI'm not sure why I didn't expect them to be in this database, but this also has like traffic tickets and similar.
- LunaSea 6y agoHmmm: https://www.judyrecords.com/record/1ikmhvbrhfa3a https://www.judyrecords.com/record/1ikmhvbrhfa3a
- csunbird 6y ago333 N Warcraft Lane Undercity, Washington 99999 Looks like a place I would like to live in.
- richardbarosky 6y agoAh, good one. There are many nuggets in there. "holy shit", fart, etc.
- LunaSea 6y agoAny idea how those came into the system? The one I quoted seems to be some kind of test case?
- richardbarosky 6y agoMost likely, just like the asdf occurrences.
- bflesch 6y agoThe search is very quick. Does anybody know how their tech stack looks like?
- richardbarosky 6y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jg4rkv/how_a_search_engine_with_400_million_records/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jg4rkv/how_a_s...
- kordlessagain 6y agoFrom Reddit thread: > MySQL 8 is used for DB. The seach server uses elasticsearch 7.8.
- jillesvangurp 6y agoSounds like that would be an easy use case for elasticsearch indeed. I've seen it handle much bigger data sets. Solr would work as well. There are probably a few other options on the market but elasticsearch would probably do pretty well on this even without a lot of tuning. For reference, I once threw the entirity of open streetmaps at it before it even hit 1.0 to implement a simple reveres geocoding thing. Basically a couple hundred million street segments, some polygons, etc. At the time the geospatial support wasn't great and very new and very CPU intensive. I got away with indexing all of that and running it on a single node cluster with a xeon and 32G of RAM and spinning disk (RAID 1, no SSD). It worked great. Very responsive. Indexing only took about 50 minutes or so. Most of that was my parsing logic. That's not comparable of course, I'd expect this to be faster on the same hardware with a current version of Elasticsearch. They've made a lot of leaps with improving performance, memory usage, cpu usage, disk usage, robustness, etc. in the 7 major versions since then.
- m3kw9 6y agoWhat stack did you use for this?
- richardbarosky 6y agoSee other comment link to reddit.
- mrits 6y agoIt's pretty hilarious and somewhat frightening I found my dad's arrest 25 years ago for a speeding ticket he had "forgotten" to pay. I remember being 11 years old and having to wait 8 hours for my parents to come back from picking up a pizza. Data availability is crazy.
- hbt 6y agothe frightening part is although your father's record is available to the public, police officers who are caught lying while testifying get to seal the record. in many jurisdictions, sealing a record is the equivalent of destroying it. your crimes will haunt you forever because the system never forgets, meanwhile they simply go back to business like it never happened ref https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/03/18/nyregion/testilying-police-perjury-new-york.amp.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/03/18/nyre...
- unishark 6y agoI think judges can seal records for anyone. A friend of mine had it done after his conviction several years ago. Sure enough I can't find him in the database. He still notifies potential employers about it though.
- notyourwork 6y agoHe’s legally required to.
- handol 6y agoFound an assault charge on my Mom from '92.
- richardbarosky 6y agoDo you think the data should be removed from the government portals? Those are interesting points. What do you think is the right balance to strike? I can see why it might be surprising to find some results when searching. The same data has already been available in many other databases that have existed long before this one and in those described on the info page as well.
- draw_down 6y agoWow, this is really good. I found a court case from my childhood that I've always half wanted to, and half wanted not to, read through (painful, but potentially enlightening). Now I don't have to go to the courthouse to read it. Choices, choices. (False alarm, it's just the case record and not the transcript)
- kordlessagain 6y agoIt's throwing a 500 for some regex I fed it.
- richardbarosky 6y agoI recently added advanced query support. Looks like I need to clean up some validation. Thanks.
- l3s2d 6y agoDoes anyone know if the race data is used for crime statistics? I did a quick sample of people I know, and almost every South Asian was miscategorized as Black or White.
- richardbarosky 6y agoThe race data in court case records is very often used for crime statistics. It's probably the most analyzed data point after what the incident was about.
- dkn775 6y agoNo it’s likely not, arrest records are separate from traffic citations and are two different databases. Also, your race may come from the cop filling out the ticket, or it may come fr9m your license in more advanced jurisdictions. The source for crime statistics is usually not court records, those are held by the courts.
- onetimemanytime 6y agoI understand the open court argument, we need to see what goes on so nothing funny happens there. But unless we're talking about a major crime, what good does it do to list and index on Google everything from 30 years ago? I am no fan of this at all.
- richardbarosky 6y agoOnly 3 pages are indexed on Google. Actually, most of the other legal databases (listed on info page) have their cases indexed on Google. However, judyrecords cases aren't indexed on Google. I understand your general sentiment.
- iav 6y agoHow did you get google to index that many pages? For me Google only crawls about 1000 pages per day, no matter how many I show in the index
- bidnessmodell 6y agoWorse, there's no obvious business model or disclosed funding source or institutional affiliation here. That leaves me with the distinct impression that they're monetizing data about visitors and searches in some horrible way. (Data targeting for mugshot shakedown operations?) I'm not going near this.
- richardbarosky 6y agoMaybe ads at some point.
- Finnucane 6y agoSometimes even seemingly trivial cases can be caselaw precedent that people should be able to see and access without paying (they are public records).
- richardbarosky 6y ago
- vmception 6y agoFascinating! Was surprised to see random infractions Does this have the lower trial court records too?
- richardbarosky 6y agoYes, it has records from different trial courts.
- vmception 6y agoIs there a list of jurisdictions and courts that it has?
- 120bits 6y agoFrom the the reddit link[1] Sorry, I'm just curious. It says MySQL 8 and Elasticsearch 7.8. I don't have much experience in elasticsearch, I wanted to know how does elasticsearch makes it faster? Is it like an extension that makes it faster? Or Elasticsearch has its own data store that consumes data from the database and magically makes it faster? Thanks. [1]https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jg4rkv/how_a_search_engine_with_400_million_records/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jg4rkv/how_a_s...
- richardbarosky 6y agoElasticsearch is a search platform. A "database" but meant for search stuff. It's not part of MySQL.
- nerdponx 6y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25152925 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25152925
- rpedela 6y agoElasticsearch, Lucene under the hood, implements an inverted index which is an extremely fast data structure for text search. ES has clustering as a primary feature too and many search features that can significantly improve relevance that you won't find in MySQL and most other databases.
- arminiusreturns 6y agoHow would you say it stands up to splunk these days?
- lolive 6y agoPlus it does not accept joins. So you basically have to denormalize all your data before injecting into Elastic. It helps speedup things. But is a headache to manage on a day to day basis.
- rpedela 6y ago
- vmception 6y agolol so many records that should have been destroyed and not indexable! so do I get a court order for each county, the website, the resyndicating source that the website uses or what? I looked at the reddit page and other people noticed the same thing, the author just said send me the link! Hahaha one by one removal maybe! Shut it down, enjoy it while it lasts
- richardbarosky 6y agoI don't think you understand what you're talking about. There are many databases that are made up of public records. Many aren't free, some are.
- vmception 6y agoThat may be the reality but if the court or due process ordered something expunged from a record it should be updated in all records and the details not present. Should just do a search for expunged or similar terms and remove those entries.
- chrisseaton 6y ago> lol so many records that should have been destroyed and not indexable! You want secret courts?
- jschwartzi 6y agoDo you want things that children do to follow them for the rest of their lives?
- chrisseaton 6y agoI don't know what culture you come from, but in the US and UK and similarly influenced cultures justice being seen to be done and recorded is a pretty important principle and mechanism against overreach of the state.
- jaequery 6y agoWhat a clean interface. We need more website to look like this.
- richardbarosky 6y agoThank you
- nerdponx 6y agoOne Reddit user estimated the monthly cost of this site at over $2000 USD. How are you funding that? https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jg4rkv/comment/g9qqud6 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jg4rkv/comment...
- richardbarosky 6y agoI've downgraded from that. I talked about that in that post. It was most definitely a knee-jerk reation to getting slashdotted on a popular subreddit and not wanting that to happen again. However, still on some very good hardware and handling current workload pretty well right now. That estimate was high.
- ethbr0 6y agoBullet points on what you downgraded to cut costs? Curious technical minds want to know.
- richardbarosky 6y agoSure, I'll post after the dust settles. Server getting smashed but still handling searches pretty dang well. Some sites crash from the page views, and here I have to handle everyone searching 400 million documents too.
- vlmutolo 6y agoOdds are this won’t help you, but just in case you haven’t seen it. https://blog.burntsushi.net/transducers/ https://blog.burntsushi.net/transducers/
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- ElijahLynn 6y agoInteresting (obviously these aren't all the same person): Page 1 of 1,763 total cases for: donald j. trump Page 1 of 2,299 total cases for: donald trump
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- txmachinery 6y agoIt's 80 cases when searching: "donald j trump"~4 This is a proximity search, to ensure it's actually turning up one of the various permutations of the name (as different court protocols may refer by surname first), rather than documents that just happen to contain each of the terms somewhere. For fairness, "hillary rodham clinton"~4 turns up 193 cases. Relevant doc: https://www.judyrecords.com/info https://www.judyrecords.com/info (down the page, under "proximity search")
- r3trohack3r 6y agoInterested in how large this dataset is? Is it in a format that could be backed up by a community to protect? Seems like something folks in /r/datahoarder would be interested in backing up.
- richardbarosky 6y ago15KB is maybe the average case size, including HTTP request data. That's 1024 * 15 * 439,000,000 = 6.7TB roughly. The cases are all compressed, so I'm not using 6.7TB non-compressed for cases. But there are other request and non-request related records needed too. Just my backups currently.
- loxias 6y agoBeing as you're offering use of the site for free, would you be open to the idea of also offering publicly available DB dumps? There's plenty of fun projects that I can imagine doing if I had that data locally.
- tomorrowfuture 6y agotrellis.law does something similar their searches are indexed and have rulings and documents as well. does this differ from that service?
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- _gtly 6y agohttps://www.courtlistener.com https://www.courtlistener.com has more useful features and is part of the Free Law Project.
- richardbarosky 6y agoI've noted CourtListener on the info page: https://www.judyrecords.com/info https://www.judyrecords.com/info "PACER notwithstanding, CourtListener is the most powerful case law research tool available online — and in many ways is much more powerful." This is based on CourtListener's 4 million+ written court opinions, which judyrecords has recently integrated. But you're right, CourtListener has more case law research features.
- FpUser 6y agoI am not fond exposing this kind of info. Don't we all have enough prying eyes
- richardbarosky 6y agoI've mentioned other legal databases on the info page. It's public information. judyrecords is the largest free database of court cases, but there are many other free/not free ones as well.
- FpUser 6y agoI did not mean this one in particular. Just my opinion about the subject in general.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y agoIn my state you can get some kind of understanding of whats going on, but it's so legalese vague that half the time you only know if someone got a speeding ticket, underage, or divorced.
- justinzollars 6y agoThis is great. Its like google before it become evil.
- richardbarosky 6y agoThank you
- whoaWtf 6y agoWow, the OP's reddit history in /r/PurplePillDebate is fucking cringe. https://www.reddit.com/user/aoeusnth48/ https://www.reddit.com/user/aoeusnth48/
- josefresco 6y agoWow, I really wish I hadn't jumped down that rabbit hole.
- richardbarosky 6y agoFeel free to join in if you're interested in gender dyanmics stuff
- tbrock 6y agoThis is awesome. Where did the data come from?
- richardbarosky 6y agoThanks. All the data is collected from various government databases.
- aVx1uyD5pYWW 6y agoHow did you do that? Did you have to implement a scraper for each county?
- chris_f 6y agoCongratulations on the launch. I have worked in open source and public record research for the last 15 years, and your coverage is extremely impressive. Do you have any long term plan for the site? I can see this going in a lot of different directions depending on your goals.
- richardbarosky 6y agoThanks, as far as I know it's the largest database of court cases on the Internet. If there's enough traffic I'll support the site with ads. Don't have any other specific plans currently.
- iav 6y agoI run a similar free site and was looking at add ads. Google Adsense rejected it for not complying with their program policies. My data is on large US federal bankruptcies, so I really couldn’t pin point why but just a heads up that it might be more difficult.
- godmode2019 6y agoI feel this is bad news. Some things should be forgotten. In my country your record gets soft wiped after 8 years. With this the employer could just look up your name.
- richardbarosky 6y agoThe general idea has various problems. For example, would newspapers or accounts of things/people, in various media, of objectively public information be required to be retroactively removed from any mention? Does it make sense to force and dictate what entities/individuals can do with basic information at the discretion of anyone who doesn't like it? Just a few thoughts. The records exist in the database because they are public information. If a record is removed from public view, that's done when requested because it's the right thing to do, although there is no strict legal obligation to do so.
- colejohnson66 6y agoHow does Europe’s “right to be forgotten” handle it?
- richardbarosky 6y agoNot sure. Maybe if someone doesn't like the Google search results, they make a complaint, and Google has to do what they want. There are many other public records databases that have similar data, including the federdal judiciary and many state courts across the country. Some are listed on the info page: https://www.judyrecords.com/info https://www.judyrecords.com/info
- mushbino 6y agoI found my conviction for assault from a bar fight 23 years ago. Since then I quit drinking, went to college, raised a child who is now 20, and turned everything around. It's pretty disheartening to see it can be found by anyone 23 years later. Unfortunately, I'm not surprised in the least that we allow this in the US.
- HoverSausage 6y agoI just managed to find the home address of a YouTuber I'm a fan of in 15 seconds. Creepy site. Glad I'm not in the US
- richardbarosky 6y agoInteresting point. If you know the state where someone lives, you can look up the same info on the government website. Additionally, many many other databases have same public data but they ask for a payment to search.
- ergwwrt 6y agoDidn't Aaron Swartz try to do this but couldn't because it costs $0.10 per page?
- richardbarosky 6y agoFrom what I understand, he had some kind of academic library access for PACER and used that to bypass what others would be changed for. There are lawsuits against PACER charging fees for what's public information generated by taxpayer money. He ended up being charged with various crimes related to maybe computer fraud and eventually committed suicide. A very sad story.
- visarga 6y agoThis dataset would be yummy for GPT3
- richardbarosky 6y agoInteresting, I'll check it out. Thanks for the link.
- pachico 6y agoJeez, 36 pages with resume for "Napster"!
- zaroth 6y agoGreat site, fast and simple. When I type a query and press search, would like it if the URL updated with the search in the query string. It would make it easier to share specific queries.
- richardbarosky 6y agoGood point, that would definitely be an improvement. Thank you.
- x87678r 6y agoThis is where its nice to have a common name. Honestly its worth changing your first and last name to something generic.
- jaybna 6y agoWish we would have known about this years ago. One search would have prevented the hire is someone that ended up costing us a ton of money. Most background searches don’t get local or state court cases like this without major expense that small businesses can’t afford.
- richardbarosky 6y agoMany similar databases and people finder sites are behind a paywall. There are a lot of positives to being able to use public records data available to make more informed decisions, whether it's to let your kid stay at someone's house you don't know or whatever it might be. Thanks.
- wil421 6y agoWow a seat belt violation from 2004!
- impalallama 6y agoWell I don’t even know what’s going on here. https://www.judyrecords.com/record/hxv7x79e609 https://www.judyrecords.com/record/hxv7x79e609
- mrits 6y agoapparently the search box repopulates from a cookie. Last thing I search was my name. I clicked your link and freaked out for a second.
- chris_wot 6y ago"In Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304, 37 L. Ed. 745, 13 S. Ct. 881, the question presented was whether tomatoes were to be classed as fruit or vegetables under the tariff act. The court found no particular help from the witnesses called, and decided the point through the use of a dictionary, which was not evidence, but an aid to memory and understanding." https://www.judyrecords.com/record/5sfv13kuy1081 https://www.judyrecords.com/record/5sfv13kuy1081
- octoberfranklin 6y agoCompelled prostitution of a person under 17, duh. I mean, obviously. By a person named "bitch" in "whoresville, usa". It was all authorized by "PIMPDADDY", as shown there, plain as day.
- pluto9 6y ago"John Julio Bitch" there is quite the baller. Released the very same day for a $25 million cash bond. He's also apparently an albino who stands 5'1" tall and weighs 335 pounds.
- bgroins 6y agoI'm going to go out on a limb here and say this is probably a test record for whatever software they use.
- sushshshsh 6y agoAhh yes, the John J. Bitch from Slutville who lives on Whore Street. I know him well. But I don't remember him having pink eyes or being 335 pounds.
- xyst 6y agohahaha - just found dirt on like 1/4 of the people I know.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y agoSince session cookies are required, here is a simple script for judyrecords searching from command line. It uses links browser and tmux. #!/bin/sh # usage: 1.sh [query] -- perform search # usage: 1.sh -- process results page 1 to 200 # usage: n=5 1.sh -- process results page 5 to 200 # usage: n=201 1.sh -- quit # start tmux if not already running then detach j=https://www.judyrecords.com; case $# in 1) tmux set set-remain-on-exit on; tmux neww links; tmux send g $j/addSearchJob?search="$@" c-m; sleep 1.5; tmux send d; tmux capturep -p|sed -n /./p; tmux send g $j/getSearchJobStatus c-m; sleep 1.5; tmux send d; tmux capture -p|sed -n /./p; ;;0) test $n||n=1;while true;do test $n -le 200||break; tmux send g $j/getSearchResults?page=$n c-m; sleep 2; tmux send Down Down '\' # small monitor where results page HTML takes 4 spacebar presses to get to bottom; m=0;while true;do test $m -le 3||break; # process results -- e.g., print record URLs; tmux capturep -p|sed -n "/href=..record/{s|.*record.|$j/record/|;s/\"//;p;}"; tmux send Space; m=$((m+1));done;n=$((n+1));done; tmux killw; esac
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y agoUpdated and improved #!/bin/sh j=https://www.judyrecords.com; case $# in 1) tmux new -P -d links; tmux set set-remain-on-exit on; tmux send g; tmux send $j/addSearchJob?search="$@"; tmux send c-m; sleep 1.7; tmux send d; tmux capturep -p|sed -n /./p; tmux send g; tmux send $j/getSearchJobStatus; tmux send c-m; sleep 1.7; tmux send d; tmux capture -p|sed -n /./p; ;;0) test $n||n=1;while true;do test $n -le 200||break; tmux send Down tmux send Down tmux send g tmux send $j/getSearchResults?page=$n tmux send c-m; sleep 2; tmux send Down tmux send Down tmux send Escape; tmux send F tmux send v tmux send c-u tmux send 1.htm tmux send c-m tmux send o sed -n "/href=\"\/record/{s,.*record\/,$j/record/,;s,\",,;p;}" 1.htm; __grepq=$(exec sed -n '/a class=\"goToNextPage/!d;=;q' 1.htm); test ${#__grepq} -gt 0||break; n=$((n+1)); done; tmux killw ; esac
- op03 6y agoInteresting. Haven't seen links being used in a while. Thanks for posting.
- gfaure 6y agoOn a whim, I decided to search for "quicksort", and found a judgment where a loan company was trying to sue for infringement on the grounds that a competitor copied the SQL schema of their product. The complaint was upheld. https://www.judyrecords.com/record/3nqi41qycaf9 https://www.judyrecords.com/record/3nqi41qycaf9
- lowercased 6y agowow... "The Court finds that New Century had access to the SQL Data [pg. 536] Structures and that there is enough probative similarity to find that New Century factually copied the SQL Data Structures." The next question might be to have 'Positive Software' demonstrate that they did not, in fact, take their table schemas from some place else. Like... textbooks? Or... example database schemas from vendors. Or tutorial sites? Or competing products? There may be something extremely unique about part of their structure, perhaps, but... at the same time, there's often very little variety in how most similar data (crm/sales/lead gen/etc) might be stored to be remotely usable for reportin anyway. "misappropriation of confidential information". Without seeing the structures in question it may be hard to say, but typically 'confidential info' is qualified with "not elsewhere available"-style clauses. "... Likewise, the Court finds that there are more than one or a few ways to organize the data structures required for programs such as LoanTrack and LoanForce..." Yeah, but usually there's only one good way to do stuff. Yes I could just have one row with 940 columns - technically, I could make my program work with that - but it's extremely suboptimal - regardless of whether I've seen anyone else's table structures or not.
- rcpt 6y agoThis is great I had no idea how many times people tried to end Prop 13 using the courts or how litigious HJTA was. Hard to read on mobile though
- aVx1uyD5pYWW 6y agohow was this data acquired? did you scrape government websites for this data?
- Farfromthehood 6y agoWhoa. Searched my name and found my sealed court records from when I was barely a teen (25 years ago). The records even state "sealed/exempt from public" at the top. This is pretty neat as I have never seen the records, even though I requested them (out if curiosity) 10 years ago, only to be told they had been destroyed years prior.
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- richardbarosky 6y agoIs the case available on the court portal? You can email me richardbarosky@gmail.com if its been removed since it was retrieved.
- lostlogin 6y agoCan you explain why the poster would want to email you? Edit: I think I got there eventually - this is something you made?
- squid_demon 6y agoGlad the record I got expunged from 20+ years ago is in there. Really nice.
- leonardoeloy 6y agoSearch for "analytics" and then you realize that there is a collection company that sues the hell out of people.
- scottisbrave84 6y agoThis works really well but be sure to check pages and pages for the actual fische
- nojvek 6y agoWeapons of math destruction. This would be one of them. The data here is emvarassing for individuals and it can be looked up for decades in history. I know this was always public but this makes it too easy for masses to dig through the troves. Scares me. Next thing I see is some AR glasses that do facial recognition and correlate name -> public records. Could be a nasty blackmail tactic. Some things are close to Black mirror in reality.
- caseyscottmckay 6y agoSo the data should be public (as it always has been), but it should not be easily accessible?
- nojvek 6y agoNo. Data should be erased from records after a couple of years for individuals with pretty crimes.