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Re:Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases by boomer918 on Saturday February 19, 2022 @10:06PM (#30402857)
Isn't there laws protecting people against this? Expunged record should not be visible, right?
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Re:Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases by richardbarosky on Saturday February 19, 2022 @11:07PM (#30403129)
If a record is made public, it's always part of the public record. If a case has been expunged, those results are removed though because it's the right thing to do.
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Re:Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases by Flashtoo on Sunday February 20, 2022 @01:29AM (#30403693)
There are in Europe i.e. the GDPR but not in the US afaik.
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