All court records, filings, judgements, laws, and reviews are public records unless sealed by the courts. It's a matter of whether they have been digitalized or not.
How easy it is to access data is a dimension of privacy, too. When Facebook introduced the Timeline, it made it easy to jump to a year in the past. Before, you had to laboriously scroll back through all recent posts. Making my old embarrassing high school photos easy to look up affects me!
It’s one thing for someone to have to dig up records through obscure legal websites. It’s another for it to show up on the front page of your Google search listing.
