Thread: Government outsources IT to India to develop Benefit systems
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Old 26-03-2012, 21:58   #4
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Re: Government outsources IT to India to develop Benefit systems
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Originally Posted by admars View Post
this sort of thing goes on a lot, for example NHS. Company i used to work for did outsourcing, some to India. NHS data wasn't allowed to be stored overseas, however, it was ok for Indian users to use Citrix etc to connect to UK based servers, as long as they didn't print data, email it to their Indian based accounts etc!
Sorry, but that is a common misunderstanding - it still counts as 'processing' even if it is just displayed on a screen (this was explained to me by one of the DLA Piper partners (law firm) who specialises in DPA & FOI at our recent training session on these subjects).
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