The problem is, no data that is connected to the Internet is ever secure. Choicepoint had one of the most secure sites in the world as regards to hacking. They  required fees and security checks. It was an easy task for the identity thieves to assume the identitities of citizens and open new accounts with bogus companies. Using the stolen identities of 50 people they were able to access the identities of as many as a half million new victims.

According to one foreign outsourse site they have relationships with two hundred online American counties. They also openly boast of their ability to instantly outsource the information to China and the Phillipines for processing. Another foreign outsource site includes title insurance as one of the services they offer.

According to the FBI mortgage fraud is an epidemic, driven in part by the easy access of  online public records. The lending institutions are suffering huge losses. The FBI compared these losses to the Saving's and Loan scandle.

According to a terrorist training manual found on a laptop computer in Afghanistan "80% of the information we need about our enemies can be found through public sources" It is likely they used these online sources to acquire the 50 phony driver's licenses from five states they used in the commission of the 9/11 attack.

The deed fraud in Florida was commited by searching the probate records for deceased property owners. Many of the victims were  New York residents prior to their deaths. Isn't it likely the perpetrators found these victims in the New York online records? It was a simple matter to cross reference these names against the land records in Florida which are also available online.

In the long run  who benefits from the records being online? No one except those who view their convenience and profit as more important than the security of the American citizen.