Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases
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Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases
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Re: Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases
#2This is amazing. Can you share any info on how you were able to compile so much info from different sources? In my limited experience of hunting for legal filings, it seemed like every court had its own system, with nothing standardized or programmatic.
Thanks!
Re: Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases
#3This is... not great. It's crucial that these records be open to public inspection. But instant full-text search of the entire dockets of 630M cases feels wrong, invasive, and dangerous to me.
It's yet another instance of panopticon surveillance now being too cheap to meter. I think our society needs to come to grips with this new reality and figure out what to do about it.
Or are we all just cool with this?
Re: Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases
#4This is amazing. Can you share any info on how you were able to compile so much info from different sources? In my limited experience of hunting for legal filings, it seemed like every court had its own system, with nothing standardized or programmatic. Thanks!
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Re: Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases
#5This is amazing. Can you share any info on how you were able to compile so much info from different sources? In my limited experience of hunting for legal filings, it seemed like every court had its own system, with nothing standardized or programmatic. Thanks!
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Re: Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases
#6This site will be the first stop for anyone wanting to harass another person online. Some times a little friction is a good thing.
I love projects like these, but they're the digital equivalent of "dual use technologies". They can be used for good or evil.
That said, nice work.
Re: Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases
#7This is... not great. It's crucial that these records be open to public inspection. But instant full-text search of the entire dockets of 630M cases feels wrong, invasive, and dangerous to me. It's yet another instance of panopticon surveillance now being too cheap to meter. I think our society needs to come to grips with this new reality and figure out what to do about it. Or are we all just cool with this?
Powerful corporate and government actors have massive surveillance and data warehousing capabilities that aren't going away. At the very least, putting those powers into the hands of the public helps to level the playing field.
Society will have to change to accommodate the digital panopticon. I don't see the digital panopticon going away, though.
Re: Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases
#8This is... not great. It's crucial that these records be open to public inspection. But instant full-text search of the entire dockets of 630M cases feels wrong, invasive, and dangerous to me. It's yet another instance of panopticon surveillance now being too cheap to meter. I think our society needs to come to grips with this new reality and figure out what to do about it. Or are we all just cool with this?
There are public court records (criminal, civil), and there are non-public court records (e.g. sealed - juvenile, divorce, etc.)
As far as I can tell, all of this data is of the public nature.
While it may feel weird to type in someone's name and see their history with regard to legal filings... that is the society we live in: an open society.
Aggregating a number of disconnected data sources for search I think is absolutely a legitimate usage of the data.
Re: Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases
#9This is... not great. It's crucial that these records be open to public inspection. But instant full-text search of the entire dockets of 630M cases feels wrong, invasive, and dangerous to me. It's yet another instance of panopticon surveillance now being too cheap to meter. I think our society needs to come to grips with this new reality and figure out what to do about it. Or are we all just cool with this?
Don't lawyers already have access to case law like this? I feel like this is not a new thing, but giving access to everyone is novel.
I could be wrong on my facts.
Re: Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases
#10This site will be the first stop for anyone wanting to harass another person online. Some times a little friction is a good thing. I love projects like these, but they're the digital equivalent of "dual use technologies". They can be used for good or evil. That said, nice work.
>This site will be the first stop for anyone wanting to harass another person online. Some times a little friction is a good thing.
Precisely I was thinking of how much fun we'll be having in efnet with this.