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Data Privacy, Data Piracy: Can India Provide Adequate Protection For Electronically Transferred Data?, Vinita Bali
Data Privacy, Data Piracy: Can India Provide Adequate Protection For Electronically Transferred Data?, Vinita Bali
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Three employees of Mphasis, a business process outsourcing ("BPO") firm, which runs call center services for Citibank's U.S. customers in Bangalore, India, were arrested for allegedly siphoning $350,000 from the accounts of Citibank's U.S. customers. These employees used their positions, which provided them access to Citibank customers, to induce four customers into giving out the personal identification numbers to their accounts, allowing the employees to illegally siphon funds out of those accounts. Outsourcing is a growing trend among budgetconscious U.S. companies and institutions. Information being outsourced includes personal data and confidential proprietary information. For example, Unisys Corporation, a company that …
Twilight Of The Idols? Eu Internet Privacy And The Post Enlightenment Paradigm, Mark F. Kightlinger
Twilight Of The Idols? Eu Internet Privacy And The Post Enlightenment Paradigm, Mark F. Kightlinger
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This Article provides a timely examination of the European Union's approach to information privacy on the internet, an approach that some legal scholars have held up as a model for law reform in the United States. Building on the author's recent piece discussing the U.S. approach to internet privacy, this Article applies to the EU's internet privacy regime a theoretical framework constructed from the writings of philosopher and social theorist Alasdair MacIntyre on the failures of Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment thought. The EU internet privacy regime is shown to reflect and reinforce three key elements of the "post-Enlightenment paradigm," i.e., the …