Having information be public on request (e.g. from courts) is important. But the step from making individual bits of information public via request from authori

Having information be public on request (e.g. from courts) is important. But the step from making individual bits of information public via request from authorities, to making it indexed/published/searchable for anyone in the world through a private company is quite a big one. This privacy/security by obscurity you get from having to fill out forms or call a court isn't something one can just argue doesn't mean anything because public-vs-nonpublic is the only measure.