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Offshored Identity Theft
Travoltus writes "The threat of increased misuse of consumer personal data by offshore criminals was first made publicly known with the UCSF Pakistani medical transcriber scandal. Then, in a logical progression of events, it was discovered that foreign criminal interests were offering money to offshored call center workers to surrender consumer data. Now that threat has been realized: Offshored call center staffers at Mphasis BPO have allegedly stolen £200,000 using United States customers' personal information. It is believed that Indian police reacted swiftly to catch the thieves, but only £12,000 has been recovered so far, and it is not really known who orchestrated this theft or where the rest of that money is now. It is also unknown as of yet how much of a mess this has created for the U.S. citizens who were victimized. Let's hope that the people whose information was stolen don't have to go through what other identity theft victims have to endure, to clean up their good name."
When you support off shoring you support terrorists. Insert sarcastic tone where you feel it is necessary.
this is the most important sig ever! In your face 446154!
Pretending that every culture has the same general view of privacy rights is high ignorance.
Pakistan is a country in which "honor killings" are socially acceptable.
It's not a question of "bad people" being everywhere - it's a question of the definition of "good."
In most countries - feeding your family by any available means is a moral trait - The means are irrelevent so long as you stand a better than average chance of remaining free to feed them next week.
That calculation varies from country to country and it has little to do with "bad" and "good".
We live in a country in which the quality of life has benefitted from the slavery and exploitation of people in the rest of the world.
Having killed the Indians for their Land, we enslaved the africans for their muscles, now we corrupt the arab world for their oil, bankrupted eastern europe by sabatoging their oil pipeline, and exploited children in china to make Nike shoes to say nothing of the environment.
At some point the chickens come home to roost.
AIK
Post your link to the source of this "news". I can't find it on Google. Link not to a rightist blogger or Freerepublic, but a to a transcript of the comment, WITH CONTEXT, or at least an article from a credible news source referring to this. No, Rush is not acceptable. And he does not provide transcripts, anyway.
And as for Dobbs, he has indeed jumped onto the rightist train and is riding for the sunset, so his attitude as a "journalist" is indeed up for comment. He's dropped the mask of a reporter and has become a right-wing agitator. So it goes.
At Daily Kos or Talking Points Memo or even Buzzflash, the answer to the Drudge, they exhaustively document and link each reference to an actual news article from a credible source. "Everybody knows" is not credible as a source.
This "Franken is calling names" stinks of the old Orwellian trick of smearing the enemy with that which your side is most certainly guilty. If you know you can be called on your actions, make a lot of noise establishing "controversey" about those who will call you out, to diminish their stature. Slash, smear, distort, MAKE NOISE, and the enemy's best efforts to expose your actions can be at best summed up as calling the kettle black by those whose knowledge of the discussion is not exactly exhaustive.
Air America Radio,, with Franken as midday host, has done more to clean the rightist clocks in one year than the entire Democratic party has done in twenty.