More Reasons To Fight The Outsourcing Of Our Info (Census And Medical)

"Your patient records are out in the open to be exposed," Baloch wrote in her e-mail, "so you better track that person and make him pay my dues or otherwise I will expose all the voice files and patient records of UCSF Parnassus and Mt. Zion campuses on the Internet."

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"This was an egregious breach," said Tomi Ryba, chief operating officer of UCSF Medical Center, adding that what happened to her hospital could happen to any company that outsources data. "We'll have to live with this risk on a daily basis."

American jobs have been moving offshore for years, primarily manufacturing work seeking out lower-paid workers abroad. The outsourcing of people's personal information, though, is a relatively new phenomenon -- opening the door to identity theft, fraud and other criminal activities.

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