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Online Privacy: Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide

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By CSO Contributor

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U.S. online protections, rudimentary as they may be, are far ahead of those in some parts of the world, especially developing markets such as India. India, of course, has become a major locale for information-technology outsourcing, which means that some consumer data will inevitably end up there. And it's not clear what redress U.S. consumers might have if their personal information were released in, say, Bangalore.

"That has the potential to be a political issue," CNET's McCullagh acknowledged. "Data leaks can happen anywhere. But as long as a country has a functioning legal system, you should be able to put the issue in your contracts."

Republished with permission from Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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