Some of the questions are worth debating, but others are bum raps. There are known, workable solutions for many of the most commonly voiced objections to e-filing. Some people object to electronic filing because they believe making all court records available easily for free over the Internet would lead to invasions of privacy. In other words, they object to e-filing because it could contribute to making it too easy and inexpensive to access public records. However, while e-filing makes cheap, efficient public access possible , it does not make public access inevitable .
Courts can adopt e-filing without also making court records available over the Internet.
Even if court records are available over the Internet, they need not be made available for free. It is not unusual today for courts to charge as much as a dollar a page to reproduce court records. Just because it might be economically feasible to make electronic records available for much less does not mean that they must be free. All these concerns are easily solved by modern encryption and digital signature technology. Most pleadings are matters of public record, but for those that are not, encryption can scramble files so that no one can read them but the intended recipient.