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Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure

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206 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 02 Apr 25 16:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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dmillar ◴[02 Apr 25 18:10 UTC] No.43559558[source]▶
Many criminal records, petty or otherwise, are public record. When archived, expunged or dismissed infractions never truly become that. A traffic violation or other petty misdemeanor from 20 years ago, that has been expunged from official record, can show up on a background check because companies archive public data. So, there is a flip side to this.
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1. InvOfSmallC ◴[03 Apr 25 03:38 UTC] No.43564448[source]▶
The fact that you get it out from your criminal record doesn't mean they get forgotten. Think about a paper writing about your crime. That will be public and archived forever.