The BBC is asking "how secure are India's call centres?", after the widely-reported story that a British journalist was able to buy personal information from a call centre employee:
BBC NEWS | South Asia | How secure are India's call centres?:"...
Tougher laws
The worker could also face prosecution for theft, cheating and criminal breach of laws under the country's archaic penal code.
There is now talk of a comprehensive employee data base
The offender can even be sued for damages up to $225,000 to be paid to people affected by the leakage of information. But experts say that India's information technology laws are largely skewed towards checking e-commerce fraud, and do not give adequate attention to data protection.
'India needs a dedicated data protection law to check crimes as leakage of information from call centres,' says Pavan Duggal. "
The following articles will give a clear picture of the existence of the Data Protection Law in India:
ReplyDelete(1) The existence of the Data Protection laws in India- http://perry4law.blogspot.com/2005/05/mandates-of-wto.html
(2) The need to satisfy the requirements of Constitution of India-http://perry4law.blogspot.com/2005/05/data-protection-law-in-india.html
(3) The Privacy and Data rights of netizens- http://perry4law.blogspot.com/2005/06/privacy-and-data-rights-of-netizens.html
(4) The need and manner of Data Protection- http://perry4law.blogspot.com/2005/06/needs-and-modes-of-data-pr_111773529833410003.html
It is surprising that despite the proven fact of "sufficient Data Protection Law" in India, we are facing the tremendous pressure of foreign countries.
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Praveen Dalal
Arbitrator, Consultant and Advocate
Delhi High Court
Telephone No: 9899169611
E-mail: pd37@rediffmail.com, perry4law@yahoo.com