[FreedomCalls]

What about the big-name company call-center in India that had an employee there pull the entire corporate database off the server -- names, phone nembers, addresses, socials, credit card numbers, etc -- and told the company that if they wanted it back they had to pay a huge amount? There was nothing they could do. The FBI said it was a problem for the Indian police. The Indian police wouldn't do anything without a bribe almost as big as the ransom. The company ended up paying the bribe and quietly moving most of its sensitive operations back to the U.S.

There are huge ramifications for moving your operations into a place where U.S. laws do not apply and the U.S. legal system does not operate.

[webstersII]

"There are huge ramifications for moving your operations into a place where U.S. laws do not apply and the U.S. legal system does not operate."

These corporate guys are thinking they will get something for nothing.

Just ask Aramco and some other oil companies what happened to them in the 70's. They drilled wells and built refineries in Saudi Arabia using their US profits. Then the Saudis "nationalized" those plants and took the equipment.

Do these internet "geniuses" think they will escape the same treatment? Duh.

[tdadams]

What about the big-name company call-center in India that had an employee there pull the entire corporate database off the server -- names, phone nembers, addresses, socials, credit card numbers, etc -- and told the company that if they wanted it back they had to pay a huge amount?

Anecdotes are hardly a good basis for saying Indian call centers should be illegal. That might sell on DU, but not here.

There are huge ramifications for moving your operations into a place where U.S. laws do not apply and the U.S. legal system does not operate.

And if American companies see that crime and corruption is a cost of doing business that's too high to justify outsourcing, then India will have shot themselves in the foot. Something tells me India isn't likely to do that.