// Trust & Security Report
ROSS Intelligence, Inc.
AI-powered legal research platform (case law / statutes search) for law firms; also offered an academic-access tier. Company ceased commercial operations on January 31, 2021 after settlement/litigation costs from a Thomson Reuters copyright suit over Westlaw training data; the corporate website and legacy policy pages remain online but are not being maintained.
Certifications held
0
Maturity
Unknown
Trains on your data
Unknown
Trust center
No
// Certification ledger
Each held certification is backed by a verbatim quote from the vendor's own trust or security page. “Not confirmed” means we could not verify it publicly, not that the vendor lacks it.
> Show 9 unconfirmed / not-held certifications
source: rossintelligence.comNo public evidence. No trust center or security page exists on rossintelligence.com; the privacy policy makes no mention of SOC 2.
source: rossintelligence.comNo public evidence. Not referenced anywhere on the vendor's site.
source: rossintelligence.comNo public evidence. ROSS is a legal-research tool for law firms, not a healthcare product; no HIPAA claim is made anywhere on the site.
source: rossintelligence.comPrivacy policy discusses cross-border data transfer generally but does not name GDPR, a lawful-basis framework, or EU representative/DPO contact: "We take administrative, technical and physical measures to safeguard your Personal Information against unauthorized access." No GDPR-specific commitments (SCCs, EU rep, right-to-erasure workflow) are documented.
source: rossintelligence.comNo public evidence. Not referenced anywhere on the vendor's site.
source: rossintelligence.comNo public evidence. This standard postdates the company's 2021 operational shutdown.
// Privacy & AI training
Trains on customer data
Not stated
Data processing agreement
Not offered
Data region
Not specified. Privacy policy references international data transfers in general terms but names no specific storage region or transfer mechanism (no SCCs, adequacy decision, or EU representative named).
No public statement on whether customer research queries/documents were used to train ROSS's AI models, and no customer-facing opt-out is documented. Separately and materially: ROSS's underlying legal-AI model was itself found by a US federal court (Feb. 2025, Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence, D. Del.) to have been trained on Westlaw headnotes without a license, in a ruling that rejected ROSS's fair-use defense. This is a training-data provenance/IP issue about the vendor's own model, not a statement about customer data, but it is directly relevant to any AI-governance review of this vendor.
// Security controls
Encryption in transit
Not documented. No mention of TLS/HTTPS or encryption anywhere on the vendor's public pages.
rossintelligence.comGeneral security commitment
"We take administrative, technical and physical measures to safeguard your Personal Information against unauthorized access." The same policy also disclaims: "no website, platform or application is completely secure. We cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss or breaches of its security will never occur."
rossintelligence.comTrust center / security page
None found. No dedicated security or trust page exists on rossintelligence.com or blog.rossintelligence.com.
rossintelligence.comOperational status
Company ceased active commercial operations on January 31, 2021, citing the cost of the Thomson Reuters litigation (independent reporting, not a vendor-domain statement). The corporate site is still reachable and its policy pages are still linked, but the privacy policy is dated August 4, 2020 and the About Us page footer reads "© ROSS Intelligence, Inc. 2014–2020", indicating the site has not been maintained since before the shutdown. Any security or compliance posture described below reflects a frozen, unmaintained snapshot, not an actively operated product.
abajournal.com// Products & data scope
data: Law firm user accounts, search queries, and uploaded/researched legal documents per the general privacy policy (name, email, phone, username/password, payment info, areas of interest).
Core commercial product; company is no longer operating/selling this product as of Jan 2021 per independent reporting.
data: Same account data model as the commercial product.
Listed on legacy marketing pages (rossintelligence.com/academic-access); status unverified given the company's 2021 shutdown.
// What to watch
- Company appears to have ceased commercial operations on January 31, 2021 (independent reporting) after a Thomson Reuters copyright lawsuit; the corporate website persists but is a stale/unmaintained snapshot (privacy policy dated Aug 2020, footer copyright reads 2014–2020). Listing this vendor as an active, purchasable AI tool without a clear "discontinued/defunct" caveat would mislead directory users.
- No trust center, security page, or named compliance certifications anywhere on the vendor's own domain — all certs graded held=false on absence of evidence, consistent with a small/legacy vendor rather than an over-claim.
- In Feb. 2025 a federal court (Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence, D. Del.) ruled ROSS infringed Thomson Reuters' Westlaw copyrights by using Westlaw headnotes to train its AI, rejecting the fair-use defense. This is an AI-training-data provenance/IP finding about the vendor's own model (not customer data) but is material to any AI-governance assessment and should be disclosed if this vendor is listed.
- Identity check: evidence and all fetched pages consistently resolve to rossintelligence.com / www.rossintelligence.com / blog.rossintelligence.com, the same entity referenced in the Thomson Reuters litigation and press coverage. No conflation risk identified with a similarly named company (e.g., Rossum.ai, a document-processing vendor, appeared in search noise but was excluded).
// At a glance
Pricing model
Not verifiable; legacy site lists a Pricing page but no current, confirmed pricing (company inactive since 2021).
Self-hostable
No
// How we verified this
Every certification marked HELD is confirmed against a verbatim quote on ROSS Intelligence, Inc.'s own trust, security, or privacy pages. We reject certifications claimed only on third-party aggregators, on a cloud host's behalf, or by a similarly named company.
Last verified 2026-07-09. Compliance changes over time. Always confirm directly with the vendor before relying on any certification for a purchasing or compliance decision.
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