Identity Theft, Bangalore Style

LONDON--Once you get past the crime stories, and Tony Blair's challenge to the EU of which he's about to become the next rotating president, you get to today's big story, broken by, of all publications, the normally not-to-be-spoken-of-in-polite-company Sun. Owned by Rupert Murdoch, claiming a circulation in the zillions, the Sun today reports that private banking information of Brits is being sold by someone or someones in India, where banking call center jobs have been outsourced.

Outsourcing? Privacy invasion? Your identity stolent in India? Despite its tatty origins, the story has been all over the TV newscasts in Britain today, and even made a cameo appearance in the Indian press. Checking the Fox News website, I learn that most US doctors believe in God (or is that just another defense against malpractice actions?), but nothing about the big story broken by its Murdochian sibling. Police in Britain are taking the story seriously. How long, in this age of instant information girdling the globe, before American media do?