Better Conflict of Interest Check
July 29, 2005
When we added the Conflict of Interest check to TurboLaw, we never imagined that people would come to depend on it as much as they have.
Of course, once we learned how much people were using it, we immediately set out to make it better!
The new Conflict of Interest check in TurboLaw can show you exactly which case (or cases) may contain the conflict, as well as the individual person who caused the conflict. You can even print the report for later!
However, that’s not the only improvement. We’ve added a Consultation List to the “View” menu, so that you can add arbitrary people to TurboLaw, so that it can check them for conflicts of interest.
As always, if you have a suggestion about how we can make TurboLaw better, please let us know!
Finding Confidential Information Online – By Mistake
July 5, 2005
From Bruce Schneier’s blog and Boston.com:
Tax liens, mortgage papers, deeds, and other real estate-related documents are publicly available in on-line databases run by registries of deeds across the state. The Globe found documents in free databases of all but three Massachusetts counties containing the names and Social Security numbers of Massachusetts residents….
It’s easy to say “we haven’t seen any cases of fraud using our information,” because there’s rarely a way to tell where information comes from. The recent epidemic of public leaks comes from people noticing the leak process, not the effects of the leaks. So everyone thinks their data practices are good because there have never been any documented abuses stemming from leaks of their data and everyone is fooling themselves.
It can only be a matter of time before a lawsuit is filed because of this type of data leak. I wonder what the repercussions of that would be?
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