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New Privacy Laws In Asia May Cripple Data-Centric Outsourcing
bizwriter writes "Think privacy issues are a pain when they affect consumers? Get ready for the grandfather of all corporate computing headaches. Big privacy-law changes in India and China are about to turn data-processing outsourcing into a hurdle-leaping, paperwork-generating mess."
Maybe, but I think the EU should have done this long ago. The "safe harbour" regulation, where companies in the US promise to stick to EU law, is not worth the paper it is written on. Of course the NSA, FBI, DHS and some other three letter agencies have access, and maybe even more people.
The only way to keep data safe is to keep it under one jurisdiction. It is a sad state of affairs, but it is an accurate description of reality.
Yeah I think that's great. Indian outsourcing companies are basically making it hard for companies to ever get their data back. So either they will need knowledgeable staff in the USA to pull all their data off the Indian systems or it stays in India forever.
Good. About time US companies realize, make India your IT center you are subject to Indian IT law.
Well, look at it like this, when such laws become standard around the globe, and for example the EU decides to reject the US-EU data safe heaven idiocy, US businesses will overload the phone system in DC to get such laws in the US too, because more and more revenue will be lost, because it will be simply illegal to use an US provider to do anything related with personal data. Until this happens I guess nothing will happen in the US on this front.