Information Brokers
Information brokers have been around for decades, however, a new breed of information broker has emerged in recent years; the kind that sells personal information to anyone requesting it electronically via the Internet Driven by greed, some information brokers are careless when they receive an order. They fail to verify the identity of the requesting party and do little, if any, probing into the intended use of the information.
In one case, a 24-year old Indian man who at the time (March 2005) worked for Gurgaon-based online marketing firm named Infinity eSearch, allegedly sold information on 1,000 bank accounts to an undercover journalist working for The Sun for £ 2,750. The victim has since claimed that he was only a middleman and that he did not sell data collected by his employer. Infinity eSearch has said the company does not handle any data for the banks named in the Sun report, and that the victim did not have access to confidential data of any kind through his employment with the company, according to press reports. But the case has raised fears of an anti outsourcing blacklash if Indian firms are seen to be careless with the data they handle.
Information brokers have been around for decades, however, a new breed of information broker has emerged in recent years; the kind that sells personal information to anyone requesting it electronically via the Internet Driven by greed, some information brokers are careless when they receive an order. They fail to verify the identity of the requesting party and do little, if any, probing into the intended use of the information.
In one case, a 24-year old Indian man who at the time (March 2005) worked for Gurgaon-based online marketing firm named Infinity eSearch, allegedly sold information on 1,000 bank accounts to an undercover journalist working for The Sun for £ 2,750. The victim has since claimed that he was only a middleman and that he did not sell data collected by his employer. Infinity eSearch has said the company does not handle any data for the banks named in the Sun report, and that the victim did not have access to confidential data of any kind through his employment with the company, according to press reports. But the case has raised fears of an anti outsourcing blacklash if Indian firms are seen to be careless with the data they handle.
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