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it does make me wonder how much semiprivate data exists in the archives that was largely kept private through obscurity and small barriers to access. yes, cour
by a-dub 5y ago
it does make me wonder how much semiprivate data exists in the archives that was largely kept private through obscurity and small barriers to access.
yes, court records are public records... but how much was allowed to go in unredacted knowing that no technology existed to scrape or search it effectively? would the behavior of the courts change with respect to what gets archived if every filed document were easily queried and reviewed by anyone?
- a-dub 5y agolike, for example, does this increase the likelihood that a protected witness would be unmasked by a data mining blogger?