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#Software

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Organizations (2)

  • INSLAW INSLAW, Inc. is a Washington-area software company that developed the PROMIS case management system and became the center of a major legal and political scandal after alleging the U.S. Department of Justice stole its proprietary software and drove the company into bankruptcy.
  • Simeon Simeon, Inc. was a small software and technology company acquired by Hadron, Inc. in 1982, after which it operated as a Hadron subsidiary; it appears in this vault as part of the PROMIS scandal cluster through allegations by INSLAW founder Bill Hamilton that a 1983 fundraising trip by Hadron principals Paul Wormeli and Dominic Laiti was intended to raise capital to acquire PROMIS software - allegations that both Wormeli and Hamilton's own witness Marilyn Titus denied.

Programs (1)

  • PROMIS PROMIS (Prosecutor's Management Information System) was a case management software developed by INSLAW beginning in 1971 that became the center of a major legal and intelligence scandal after the U.S. Justice Department allegedly stole the proprietary version and distributed it internationally with a hidden surveillance backdoor.

Events (1)

  • PROMIS Software Scandal The INSLAW Affair was a legal and political scandal over allegations that the U.S. Department of Justice stole the PROMIS case management software from its developer and distributed it internationally with a surveillance backdoor.