California Court Posts SSNs, Medical Records

Lucas123 writes "California's Riverside County Superior Court's Web site is serving up document images containing SSNs and detailed medical records relating to civil cases, according to a couple of privacy advocates. All of the documents are free to anyone who knows where to look for them. 'Searches done on the court's Web site turned up various documents related to civil cases that contained sensitive information. Included were complete tax filings, medical reports pertaining to cases handled by the court, and images of checks complete with signatures as well as account and bank-routing numbers.'"

Comments

Individuals are the only ones who care

[rbanzai]

Only YOU care if your information is made public. There is absolutely no reason for any public or private organization to give a shit, and they make that evident over and over. Until it is more cost effective for them to protect the info than to leak it they will continue to do so. And that's never going to happen.

Enter legislation

[Nerdposeur]

Until it is more cost effective for them to protect the info than to leak it they will continue to do so.

Which is why we need legislation that will fine them for releasing that information.

Another idea would be to demote the person who made the decision to post that stuff publicly to Official Identity Theft Aftermath Cleanup Technician.

SCrubing SSN's is not the answer

[geekoid]

the answer is to stop using them for credit scores and ID.

Remember kids, wikileaks=wrong, us courts = OK

[plasmacutter]

Remember kids, if you are a public interest blog, you are gagged for simply having the POTENTIAL to release this information.

It's perfectly ok though for the federal government to actually do it.