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In June 2005, SUN magazine of UK reported sale of sensitive information of UK banking Industry, by some Indian to their Under Cover Reporter, has again raised alarm among the BPO industry. Mr Kiran Karnik, the president of the National Association of Software Services Companies, has also shown concern.

But the person, Mr Bahree in the centre of the storm has denied any such leakage. And said he was just giving presentation to Mr Oliver in relation to his employer’s business, which is a web-designing firm only. “We don’t have any clients in Banking Industry and Mr Bahree has no access to any such sensitive information”, added the Employer, Infinity.

In UK also all the Banks are assuring customers that they have employed best of security measures and the data cannot be leaked in such a fashion. All these factors have brought the ball back to the SUN’s court…. who need to provide more evidence against Mr Bahree.

Though, the chief Minister of Haryana has already ordered enquiry into the incident. And things will become transparent in the days to come.

But this incident can be looked at, from another point of view too. No doubt, US and UK citizens have long been protesting against the Outsourcing of work to India. Therefore, there is a possibility that this incident was plotted by SUN to show to the world, that Outsourcing Sensitive Information to India isn’t in the safest of hands and thereby discouraging UK companies from Outsourcing to India.

And there is also the debate going on, whether India lacks Data Protection Law or not, i.e. whether Information Act, 2000 is enough for Data Protection. But this needs to be looked from the point of view of European Laws, whch demand the presence of Data Protection laws in the destination country. It is their point of view that matters and whether they feel secure of the existing Indian Laws and willing to outsource to India, given the present legal scenario.
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