[IP] 3 columns about security risk of processing medical and tax files overseas

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Delivered-To: dfarber+@ux13.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:26:52 -0800
From: Rick Alber <rtalber@pacbell.net>
Subject: 3 columns about security risk of processing medical and tax files
 overseas
To: dave@farber.net


David Lazarus, an investigative business reporter for the San Francisco
Chronicle, had a series of 3 chilling articles about how companies
cannot maintain privacy protections when they send medical and tax
records overseas for processing. The folks on the IP list might like to
read about these recent developments:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/1
0/22/MNGCO2FN8G1.DTL - Pakistani clerk threatens to reveal patient
medical information unless she receives additional pay.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/1
0/24/BUG6U2I81K1.DTL - U.S. accountants are taking advantage of Indian
tax accounting services, shipping client information overseas for return
preparation, without informing clients.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/1
0/26/BUGIN2J2A01.DTL - California legislator proposes bill to prohibit
sending medical data overseas.

--------- Rick Alber

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