[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.

[FreedomCalls]

Anecdotes are hardly a good basis for saying Indian call centers should be illegal.

WTF??? Just where did I call for making Indian call centers illegal???? THAT is a DU trick. Just make up stuff. Claim I said something I did not. Then base your argument on the point you just fabricated.

I simply pointed out that firms doing business in India need to be careful and allow for the fact that they are operating in a non-US legal environment. I NEVER called for making them illegal. Just that if you have sensitive data make sure you take precautions to protect it. If you can't ensure its protection, consider keeping the call center in the U.S.