[IP] more on The Data Theft Scandal

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@reed.com>
Date: October 5, 2006 12:14:07 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: Re: [IP] The Data Theft Scandal

Why look only at criminal networks accessing call center data?  
Foreign and US intelligence agencies are missing an obvious bet if  
they haven't already bought a controlling interest in outsourced call  
center datamining opportunities. US intel agencies, for example, own  
or control lots of companies (called assets) around the world.    
Perhaps some form of this hypothetical program is what the offshore  
wiretap and datamining bill is really trying to protect?
After Iran-Contra, it's clear that intelligence agencies owning and  
controlling foreign corporations that live outside US boundaries is a  
standard practice, viewed as a "good thing" by Ollie North and his  
kin, despite the revulsion of most Americans.

I'm sure companies who outsource rarely have the tools to see if  
intelligence agencies are mining their data, and probably wouldn't be  
liable if that was happening, anyway.  So why would they look?

But inquiring minds still wonder...

David Farber wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Claudio Gutierrez <claudio.gutierrez.m@gmail.com>
> Date: October 5, 2006 10:43:17 AM EDT
> To: dave@farber.net
> Subject: The Data Theft Scandal
>
> Dave
>    An interesting documentary about data theft in India'a call
> centres will be shown today in UK's Channel 4:
>
> The Data Theft Scandal
> http://www.channel4.com/news/microsites/D/dispatches2006/data_theft/ 
> index.html
> In a 12-month undercover investigation, Turton infiltrates criminal
> networks which trade British consumers' bank and other confidential
> information for huge profits in India, the world's new call centre
> capital.
>
> <snip>
>
> Regards
> Claudio
>
>
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