When a Report Isn’t a Fact: The Risks of Relying on Data-Broker Reports in Private Investigations and Legal Work

The private investigation and legal industries have adopted powerful data-aggregation tools over the past decade. Platforms such as TLOxp, LexisNexis/Accurint, and Thomson Reuters CLEAR give investigators and attorneys the ability to pull hundreds of public- and proprietary-record fragments into a single interface in seconds. That speed and scale can be transformational: locate people, discover assets,…