June 24, 2005
British MPs React to Outsourcing Security Breach
A widely touted undercover investigation by the British newspaper the Sun found supposedly secure personal information readily available in Indian call centers for a price of $5 per grouping of information. This has caused a great deal of commotion in the British government where a transfer of British genealogical data to India was about to take place. British MP’s have argued for a halt to the transfer while the British government investigates the security of data in Indian call centers. Currently the plan however is to continue ahead with the transfer despite the MPs’ protests. British officials worry however, that if the Sun was able to attain access to 1,000 files with a promise of delivery of 250,000 more files a month it will be a relatively simple matter for any criminal to attain such files. Webindia 123.com Reports:
"Not only is this highly irregular, it is also outrageous that a government will so readily dismiss concerns of parliament in handing over the records of 250 million people to a third party halfway across the globe, he said.
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