India will tighten laws to prevent cyber crimes and ensure data secrecy after a call center employee allegedly sold personal data on 1,000 British customers, an official said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The scandal has shaken India’s booming outsourcing industry, which provides telemarketing services, call center operations, payroll accounting, and credit card processing for hundreds of Western companies.<\/p>\n
The government’s actions follow a report last week by a British newspaper that an Indian call center employee allegedly supplied details on the Britons’ bank accounts, credit cards, passports and drivers’ licenses to an undercover reporter for the Sun newspaper.<\/p>\n
Karan Bahree was sacked from his job at Web designer Infinity eSearch on Saturday after the tabloid said it paid Bahree 3 pounds (US$5.40; euro4.20) for each person’s details, which included phone numbers, addresses, and pass codes.<\/p>\n
NASSCOM said it is building a central database of all outsourcing industry employees to prevent criminals from getting jobs in the sector and threatening the data security of global companies.<\/p>\n
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