[LINK] Where do you want you privacy to go today?

[Howard Lowndes]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/03/28/MNGFS3080R264.DTL

<hfl>
A long but interesting story about the ramifications behind
outsourcing.  Do we have any idea what the status is in Australia?  Are
gummints taking any action to prevent privacy loss, especially
off-shore?  Do gummints care?
</hfl>

[...]

"Lubna Baloch sat in her office in the sprawling Pakistani commercial
center of Karachi and gazed at the e-mail she'd composed. She tried to
imagine the reaction half a world away when the people at UC San
Francisco Medical Center saw what she'd written.

The famous U.S. hospital would have to take her seriously, Baloch knew,
when it realized she was prepared to post its confidential patient
records on the Internet. That is, unless UCSF helped her get the money
she was owed from the mysterious Tom Spires, her link in a long chain of
medical transcription subcontractors.

"Your patient records are out in the open to be exposed," Baloch wrote
in her e-mail, "so you better track that person and make him pay my dues
or otherwise I will expose all the voice files and patient records of
UCSF Parnassus and Mt. Zion campuses on the Internet.""

[...]
-- 
Howard.
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