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In Europe there are no such things as: 1) secret trials (there are in US[1]) 2) background checks (for the majority of jobs). Also, criminal records get erased after a period of time, depending on the crime committed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...

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> no such things as secret trials ... criminal records get erased after a period of time

So it becomes a secret that the trial happened?

And I've been background checked for jobs I've had in Europe, even normal civilian jobs.

If court records are public, is there any technical reason a company could not scrape the records and perform background checks? Or is it a cultural difference that makes background checks less popular?

The various predecessors of the GDPR forbid it.

Forbid looking at court records? Or forbid monetizing it?

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