If you&#x27;ve been convicted of something, you&#x27;ve got a huge black mark in the various tracking&#x2F;surveillance databases such as the system discussed in this article.<p>You&#x27;re thus <i>already</i> disqualified from relationships that require you to be a squeaky clean perfect abstraction. Those databases showing a large debt &#x2F; bankruptcy &#x2F; ongoing suit &#x2F; etc will not harm you nearly as much as someone who was clean, and even having to relocate to duck a judgment won&#x27;t hurt you as much since you&#x27;re already not benefitting from touting your identity.<p>I&#x27;m not saying you should deliberately attract civil suits since losing one would still be quite disruptive, but that spectre of a little-merit high-payout suit destroying your perfect life is no longer so large since you&#x27;re already suffering half the damage.