I think they believe they are exempt from our laws. In a way, they are, since there is probably little way to enforce our laws in a country that could care less about American privacy laws.

I remember the case of the Michigan software developer who sent his program there for debugging. The Indian company promptly pirated it and began selling the program for an extremely cheap price under a new name. The Mich. company filed suit and got a default judgement when the Indians didn't show up for court. (The Indian CEO said he had a bachelor party to attend in India). Then the Indian company sued the Michigan company in a court in India and the Indian court declared the US court order null and void.

There were fourteen counties in Texas that bought the pirated software. I had occasion to get a copy of the pirated software and asked some techy types to examine the code. Sure enough, there was a programmer's back door that allowed the company to download and distribute the data directly to India.

This story was one of the first I published in the News for Public Officials Newsletter. It really is startling how some of these companies use deception to get their hands on American records.

Federal Judge Orders County Imaging Software Destroyed

 Jarrod Clabaugh with SOT also wrote an article about the issue.

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