BizTech

Global Repositioning... Who's safe?

http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~10834~2047882,00.html

Jobless Stats from the AFL-CIO

Take a look at this site for up to date job and jobless stats in the US.

http://www.showusthejobs.com/jobfacts/

Hacking danger for outsourced records hard to gauge

Hacking danger for outsourced records hard to gauge

Carrie Kirby, Chronicle Staff Writer

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/03/28/MNG573MCQG25.DTL

Ankit Fadia, an 18-year-old freelance security tester, has successfully broken into more than a dozen computer networks in India. But the Stanford freshman really doesn't think that's much of an accomplishment.

"As far as computer security is concerned, India is really bad,'' said Fadia, who published three books about computer security before leaving his native India. "Security is not a high priority for Indian companies."

Outsourced UCSF notes highlight privacy risk

LAZARUS AT LARGE

SPECIAL REPORT
Looking Offshore
Outsourced UCSF notes highlight privacy risk
How one offshore worker sent tremor through medical system

David Lazarus
Sunday, March 28, 2004

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/03/28/MNGFS3080R264.DTL

Looking Offshore

In an ongoing Chronicle series on the ramifications of shifting U.S. jobs and services overseas, this installment focuses on the threat to individual privacy when companies sendsensitive financial and personal data offshore. Read the complete series atwww.sfgate.com/business/

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Lubna Baloch sat in her office in the sprawling Pakistani commercial center of Karachi and gazed at the e-mail she'd composed. She tried to imagine the reaction half a world away when the people at UC San Francisco Medical Center saw what she'd written.
The famous U.S. hospital would have to take her seriously, Baloch knew, when it realized she was prepared to post its confidential patient records on the Internet. That is, unless UCSF helped her get the money she was owed from the mysterious Tom Spires, her link in a long chain of medical transcription subcontractors.

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Top economists and high-wage earners rethink OFFSHORING

In an article on offshoring, the Christian Science Monitor finds top economists rethinking the old equations, and those who earn over $100,000 a year less enthusiastic about the trend to send tech jobs abroad.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0305/p01s03-usec.html

Outsourcing is Becoming a Harder Sell in U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/06/business/06outsource.html

First National Anti Offshoring Bill Introduced

NEW YORK (Reuters) - About 50 U.S. House of Representatives members plan to
introduce a bill on Wednesday that would deny U.S. companies federal
financing and loan guarantees if they shift U.S. jobs overseas.

It's the first national attempt to deal with the issue of "offshoring," or
sending U.S. manufacturing and service jobs to lower-cost venues abroad.
About 20 states have proposed laws that to ban the offshoring of state
contracts.

For example, the bill would require a US Export-Import Bank loan applicant
to specify the number of employees in the United States and abroad. If the
number of non-U.S. workers increases while U.S. worker numbers fall, the
loan would be canceled.

More at
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4489321