Overview
- Public defenders in São Paulo have confirmed more than 50 cases of youths identified online, with reports of job loss, school abandonment and psychological distress.
- The exposed records contained names, ages and alleged acts and surfaced in searches on legal-aggregator platforms such as Escavador and Jusbrasil.
- The São Paulo court says an internal IT audit found no system failure and attributes the data to external collection, adding it cannot order removals from private sites without a judicial decision.
- The national judicial watchdog requested explanations in August and, citing insufficient evidence of a system breach, has not taken tougher measures, while deeper inquiries, potentially police-led, are under consideration.
- Investigators are evaluating scenarios including unredacted judicial publications, entries in the electronic court diary, or leakage via national databases like the CNJ’s Códex, as aggregators remove cited pages and assert they mirror officially public data with deidentification tools.