California Court Posts SSNs, Medical Records

Posted by kdawson on Friday May 2, 2008 @04:23AM from the just-following-the-rules dept.

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.'"

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Meanwhile.... by Otter · 2008-05-02 04:34 · Score: 3, Interesting

Meanwhile, in Italy, the outgoing government posts everyone's income and tax data. Deputy Economic Minister Vincenzo Visco bizarrely explains:
This already exists all around the world, you just have to watch any American soap to see that.

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