NASSCOM Skills Registry & BPIAI eTrack choose – dustbin or court – Supreme Court Upholds ‘PRIVACY’ as Fundamental Right!

We said it a long time ago – read related posts on our Blog:
Retract & Recall – Etrack, National Skills Registry
BPO Industry Association concedes to BPO Union

This is BIG from the Supreme Court of India – Privacy IS a Fundamental Right.

We have always maintained the same line and now we, among many others stand vindicated. Here is how NASSCOM & BPIAI blatantly violate the SC verdict …

• They collect a lot of data, past records & what not about all candidates, including biometrics – which may still be okay, yet debatable.
• They put it into a combined repository where it is SHARED among all the member companies. Here is where they directly VIOLATE our Right To Privacy and this is where a lot of us might want to sue them.
• BPO & IT Companies will also have to prove conclusively WHY all this personal data is needed for providing employment. And be sure, we will ask.

Let BPO/ IT/ Telecom Companies be WARNED – stop sharing of data without explicit permission of the candidate/ employee. Not just that, we’ve checked with some leading lawyers and they also feel – you CANNOT force a candidate to share this data and be part of a registry as pre-condition to a job. Companies trying this trick may be booked under multiple sections of the IPC, making their people liable under criminal sections punishable by fine, jail term or both.

HR Staff Beware – Since the seniors usually do not do much, it is left to the junior HR staff to do this dirty (real ILLEGAL) work. The individual HR Staff will be more culpable than the company. Kindly REFUSE to do the Company’s dirty work else you might open yourself up to the possibility of Jail Term.

Nothing less than COMPLETELY WITHDRAWAL of these programs is acceptable. Else we have staff from most major companies who are ready to sue their respective companies, NASSCOM & BPIAI for violating their right to privacy.

Chief 
BPO UNION 2.0