More than half of U.S. appellate court judges examined in a recent study were shown to have their personal data, including home addresses, phone numbers, names of relatives and case rulings listed on people search sites. An estimated 56% of judges studied, who all work in the country’s 12 regional circuit courts, have likely had personal information listed on the sites, which are run by the largely unregulated data broker industry, according to Incogni, a data deletion company. Their research also showed that about 50 out of the 270 judges studied appear on five or more data broker sites.
Report: Personal info on federal judges is widely accessible online, leading to safety risks (Suzanne Smalley, The Record)
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