imho the main problem when disclosing court info online is that it's so easy to make copies that MANY duplicates will be around forever.
if somebody is at first found guilty and then found innocent, how to update all the copies around?
of course it can happen also w/ paper documents, but it's more difficult and the scale is definitely different.
an example: italian gov decided to make public all the tax information of many citizens, then the department privacy found this illegal (and dangerous! think about burglars, solicitors, competitors, etc) and removed the contents. but the data has been copied -and inserted in p2p networks-, thus now it is online *forever* and there is no way to remove it.
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imho the main problem when disclosing court info online is that it's so easy to make copies that MANY duplicates will be around forever. if somebody is at first found guilty and then found innocent, how to update all the copies around? of course it can happen also w/ paper documents, but it's more difficult and the scale is definitely different. an example: italian gov decided to make public all the tax information of many citizens, then the department privacy found this illegal (and dangerous! think about burglars, solicitors, competitors, etc) and removed the contents. but the data has been copied -and inserted in p2p networks-, thus now it is online *forever* and there is no way to remove it.