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Online criminal records create a maze of digital punishment.

Slate has relationships with various online retailers. This article is adapted from Digital Punishment: Privacy, Stigma, and the Harms of Data-Driven Criminal Justice by Sarah Esther Lageson, published by Oxford University Press. Google search results for a person’s name are accompanied by a litany of titillating background check and reputation management All of this “data” is marked with rampant error and misleading information. That’s the biggest problem.” Though the circumstances vary, these experiences all point to the failures of data and technology companies to effectively modernize criminal justice operations. In digital criminal justice operations, a person’s disgrace is almost always up for sale and available instantly for public consumption.

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