Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases

Re:Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases by boomer918 on Saturday February 19, 2022 @10:12PM (#30402887)

This is a pretty big violation of privacy, especially for people who's criminal records have been expunged.

It could satisfy some people's curiosity or if they are a lawyer, they could save a few grand on PACER, but for everyone else this is a privacy disaster.

I hope you take this down eventually.

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Re:Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases by nickphx on Sunday February 20, 2022 @12:46AM (#30403531)

You don't need to be a lawyer to get a PACER account. I'm a felon, I have a pacer account.

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Re:Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases by zethrowaway on Saturday February 19, 2022 @11:08PM (#30403132)

Hard agree, it feels like an invasion of privacy in line with the cancerous people search/background search websites that make available everything from your home address and phone number to your pets name.

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