After doing research, they've done this to EVERY attorney in California, and in many other states. Creating profiles, which they refuse to delete, about the attorneys - with the addresses, phone numbers and email addresses(if they did not remove them from their state bar website.)
There are many attorneys nationwide, who work from home - and are forced to have an address and phone number of record, on file, with their state bar - that the public can access - via the state bar website. This company pulled all of this information, to make a profit. They created a "ratings" system, where individuals, colleagues, or other attorneys can go put in ratings or recommendations that impact this basically arbitrary number.
But the worst part is - they will not remove your profile. After several emails, and a phone call - I finally got them to remove my address and phone number. But they refuse to delete the profile. Additionally, their profile for me exists in such a way that if anyone ever wanted to, they could go ahead and post my number and address in this profile.
This forces me to go out next week, and pay for a P.O. Box - out of my own pocket, so that I can post that information to the State Bar's website - to protect my address. My phone number I can't protect, because you have to have one listed. And fortunately, the State Bar just recently made it so that you do not have to have an email address listed for the public.
What happened to information security? What happened to privacy?
/rant off
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Hawkson, Esq.
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
I dont really see it as the company's fault.