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Private Data Sold by India Call Center

One of the issues of off-shoring has been security of the information that U.S. companies share with their partners. Outsourcing firms, especially in India, are sensitive to this issue and go to great lengths to assure their corporate clients that their data security is excellent.

Well... As reported by Zonk in Slashdot, Channel 4 in the U.K. did a 12-month TV investigation showing how credit card and passport data on thousands of banking customers could be bought for as little as US$9.50 each.

The fallout from this investigation has been significant! Read the comments on this Slashdot posting over the coming month. There are several insightful comments, along with a diversity of perspectives.

Posted by Richard Hackathorn on Saturday, 7 October 2006 | Permalink