Outsourcing of services may also part of the present day security dilemma. Whether the outsourcing is done in the country that the Corporation resides in or shipped overseas there is always a chance that the subcontractor may steal vital trade secrets, data, or information. With the present trend to outsource services overseas this becomes even more so a threat. The reason for this is that all countries do not have the same laws regarding privacy and copy writes. On August 5th of 2004 and news article appeared in Computerworld describing this dilemma. Jolly Technologies a software development company had set up a branch of its company in India. A software engineer that worked there set up a yahoo mail account which now has 100mb of free storage space. This employee used the email account o upload and ship copies of file out of the research facility. Jolly technologies had their source code stolen and had no way to deal with it because Laws in India are not the same as in the U.S.A. (Ribeiro)[1]
This security issue also prevails in the news article posted by Wayne Rash of InfoWorld in his story posted on April, 2nd 2004. Wayne tells the story of University of California San Francisco hospital outsourcing medical information to a Pakistani transcriptionist.
The contractor had not paid this transcriptionist and she threatened to post the Medical records on the Internet if she was not paid. The laws in Pakistan or different than here in the U.S.A. and she could have done it. (Rash)[2]
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