Are those Offshore Contracts Enforceable?
February 2nd, 2011
The contrarian asks if legal muscle supports your offshore/ nearshore engagements
By George Tillmann
The most publicized justification for offshoring is cost reduction. But there is another reason companies offshore, a less publicized one — less government regulation. The argument is that the US is mired in laws and regulations that make running a business almost impossible. Developing countries give companies a chance to get government off their backs. However, there are two significant challenges when escaping government regulations: less security and less control.
The Indian government wants to snoop on every Indian citizen who uses the Internet, even if he or she has never been even a suspect in any illegal activity — and that includes you.
Internet service providers have been asked to put in place solutions to track any specific Internet Protocol (IP) address and identify it as soon as any user logs on to the Internet, according to Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service Providers’ Association of India (ISPAI).
Everyone is at risk
The difference this time is that the government would like to snoop on every Indian citizen who uses the Internet, even though he or she may never have been even a suspect in any illegal activity whatsoever. The Department of Telecom (DoT) has conveyed this to the ISPAI, at the behest of the Union Home Ministry and the Intelligence Bureau (IB), …
By Kirk Laughlin, NSAM Editorial Director
I always enjoy reading the various recommendations that come out from industry experts 
about best practices in outsourcing. Some of the advice is intended to be truly independent and unbiased and that’s the kind of material we’re often looking for at Nearshore Americas.
Other times we see “experts” arguing a specific point, but in reality they have a hidden agenda and the tone of their advice favors that agenda.
