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03-24-2016, 08:04 AM
Journalist Marc Santora wrote for The New York Times 24 March 2016:
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The lease on an Albany warehouse holding fingerprint records and other personal information collected from 22 million people was about to expire, and the state needed to digitize the files. The contract for the job required that employees responsible for scanning the records pass background checks and protect the security of the documents. ...Focused Technologies Imaging Services of Menands, N.Y., was awarded the $3.45 million contract in 2008.
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article (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/24/nyregion/new-york-state-contractor-is-said-to-threaten-privacy-of-millions-with-outsourcing.html?ref=todayspaper)
Focused Technologies Imaging Services then outsourced the work to India.
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The lease on an Albany warehouse holding fingerprint records and other personal information collected from 22 million people was about to expire, and the state needed to digitize the files. The contract for the job required that employees responsible for scanning the records pass background checks and protect the security of the documents. ...Focused Technologies Imaging Services of Menands, N.Y., was awarded the $3.45 million contract in 2008.
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article (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/24/nyregion/new-york-state-contractor-is-said-to-threaten-privacy-of-millions-with-outsourcing.html?ref=todayspaper)
Focused Technologies Imaging Services then outsourced the work to India.