It’s no secret that Judge Salas has been at the forefront, advocating for enhanced judicial security and privacy. This crusade stems from a harrowing 2020 incident where an anti-feminist lawyer, having a case under her, targeted and shot her 20-year-old son, Daniel, and severely injured her husband, leveraging publicly accessible information.
Drawing a chilling analogy, Salas remarked, “This open-source information is the ammunition that can be used to target us and to kill us.” The tragedy ignited her pursuit for the establishment of Daniel’s Law and the federal Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act, ratified by Congress in December 2022.
Addressing the Shortcomings and the Skeptics
However, these laws solely cover government databases. Campbell addressed a growing concern: is the redaction process worth the effort if information remains on non-governmental sites? She ardently responded that data brokers primarily source from governmental sites, reinforcing the urgency to redact personal data there.
