Well, actually 'more accurately' is very important and not evil at all. There have been so many horror stories of people getting unlawfully foreclosed on. We need control systems to make sure this doesn't happen. If you default on a mortgage, you get foreclosed on; that's the deal we all knowingly sign up for. What we need to ensure is rule of law, however, and if you're software updates contribute to that, I'd say it's a very good thing.
That was a subsidy of my company that we bought years ago. Those stories about "robo-signing" came out of that investigation. My company runs automation software for processing loans, mostly for the purpose of foreclosure. We were investigated by the government and our software was cleared of any malicious intent, and was found to be accurate and contained fewer mistakes than manual methods. So no one was ever "robo signing" at my company. The scandal was from ONE LADY who had her team all manually forge the same signature on foreclosure documentations from this one small branch of our company that started that whole mess. There wasn't that many houses that got improperly foreclosed on, and the ones that did made national news, but there were honestly only a few. But it all came form this one tiny subsidiary out West. The lady who was being charged with it committed suicide in her home the day of the first court hearing... There were some other companies that falsly foreclosed on homes, but not many. The company I work for has almost every loan in the country right now and does the vast majority of foreclosure processing. We do the processing for all of the major banks currently. I'm all too familiar with all of the bad press, who was involved, and what really happened. Since the scandals broke news, my company was heavily investigated by the government, but has since been cleared of any wrong doing, and our applications have all been vetted and came out clean. It's pretty easy to determine who I work for based on this with a bit of googling, but I, for obvious reasons, won't put that company name in print and tie it to my username. But our technology is awesome and we definitely don't robo-sign. But still, it's always a little awkward telling people I work for a foreclosure servicer... but I'm just in IT and do the infrastructure architecture for our web apps. But I've had a few people I've met who have been like "Oh, I just had my home foreclosed on..." Makes for some awkward conversations. Oh, and about every week we get threat alerts that someone threatened to shoot our employees in the parking lot... and we're not even their loan holder! We're just a servicer for the banks. Some peoples kids.There have been so many horror stories of people getting unlawfully foreclosed on.