Philippines knows more about you, than you do

Philippines have cheap labour. Companies can setup there, and save a ton of money over the cost of labor in the USA. In a healthcare environment, this means Philippine staff are logging into USA Computers, and looking at your private personal information that contains, your name, DOB, SSN, your home address, phone numbers of your work and home. They know your family physician, your insurance provider. Essentially everything that is important in your life.
And you have zero say over it.
If you go to a hospital in the USA, the Philippine personnel have access to it all. Will they sell your information to China? Well, they are underpaid. I would say there is a good chance.

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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

Big flaw in your conspiracy. Most of the companies they work for are North American and have very very strict rules and audits on those things and the company is watching everything they do on those computers. And everyone in that call centre knows if they fuck up it could literally cost everyone in that call centre their jobs. Entire call centres with hundreds of people get shut down completely over data breaches.

Crazywaterspring · 61-69, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow True. Source: Philippine partner has many friends and relatives working in call centers.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@Crazywaterspring I worked in that industry for 10 years.

UreBesFrend · M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Yes, but it only takes one guy.. maybe he isn't happy with this job.. maybe he was approached to provide information in exchange for a new car. Keep in mind, these people are not even from the same country, would they really care that your personal record is sold to someone else? Highly doubt it.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@UreBesFrend Doesn't matter. Nobody is going to get 300-400 people including themselves unemployed and blacklisted. Meaning they can never get a job in that industry again.

And this is not the 1980s. It doesn't matter if they are in the same country. And how they feel doesn't matter. Every computer and workstation in a call centre is loaded with basically surveillance software along with video surveillance too. Heck they are even working on brain wave monitors.

Plus in the scenario you present they would run afoul of espionage laws.

And that country has some of the worst prisons and make American prisons look like 5 star resorts by comparison.

Nobody is that stupid.

Crazywaterspring · 61-69, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow You know a country's prisons are bad when the UN calls them out for human rights violations. From what I've heard suicide is a better option than a Philippine prison. You can stay for years awaiting trial. And that time does not count toward any sentence.