Comment Re:Mortgages are public records (Score 2, Informative) 294
Mortgages are public records. State and local governments already have all that data. Anyone can look it up.
I don't think mortgages are public record. Sales of houses and their prices are public record, but that is a far cry from knowing your actual mortgage (maybe you paid cash?)
There's a lot of funny stuff going on in the foreclosure area, but nobody has been analysing that as a "big data" problem.
Yes, "big data in a cloud with web 2.0" is the solution. It is reasonably known what "funny stuff" goes on, but instead of cracking down on these practices, we are going to do reports. Reports are needed to identify the problem when it is a mystery.