Another large registry forming

["Brown, James" <jbrown () thrupoint net>]

From a recent bizwire article...
 
Key sentences: 1.3 million workers covering 1,000 companies are expected to be registered within 12 to 18 months. 
Employee data are to be refreshed every five years. 
 
Jim B.
 
 

India Launches IT Workers Register:  Nasscom, India's software employers' organisation, launched a nationwide register 
of IT employees on Wednesday, aimed at preventing security breaches. The register, believed to be the first of its 
kind, will include workers' photographs, fingerprints, signatures, passport numbers, educational backgrounds and 
employment histories. The database will be voluntary for workers but employers may choose to hire only those on the 
register.Earlier this year, allegations of impropriety shook the IT industry, the bedrock of India's booming economy. 
The $5.2bn (EUR4.3bn, £2.9bn) call-centre industry came under heavy scrutiny in April after three employees of Mphasis, 
a Bangalore-based outsourcing firm, were arrested for allegedly stealing $350,000 from Citibank account holders in New 
York. Two months later, an IT employee in Delhi was reported to have sold confidential information on 1,000 UK banking 
customers. 1.3 million workers covering 1,000 companies are expected to be registered within 12 to 18 months. Employee 
data are to be refreshed every five years. IT companies Satyam Computer Services, Tata Consultancy Services and Mphasis 
have already mobilised employees to sign up. The database will be monitored by independent background checkers, such as 
KPMG and Quest Research. Deepankar Sanwalka, head of forensics at KPMG, said the database would not only make it 
difficult for repeat offenders to perpetrate identity theft, it would also reduce industry costs.

 
 
 
 
 
 


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