Gartner says a shortage of Indians means your personal details will soon be up for grabs. Won’t be enough qualified folks on-duty in India to keep your outsourced details safe. In India. Britain’s computing backs the survey firm up:

Last July a call centre worker in India sold the account details of 1,000 customers of a UK bank to an undercover reporter for The Sun at 4.25 per account.

In another case last April police arrested three Indian call centre employees for attempting to steal $350,000 from the accounts of Citibank clients.

Put another way, these folks seem to be saying,”Keep your data out of those Indians’ hands.”

Time to put this matter in perspective.

Remember Daniel Baas? Worked for an Acxiom contractor. Awarded 45 months for stealing millions of records from Acxiom. Scott Levine? Convicted in August, 2005. Stole over 1.5 billion records from Acxiom. The company that knows more about you than you know about yourself. By the way, Scott was an Acxiom customer… as in, the data is for sale.

The Acxiom case eclipses CardSystems 40 million credit-card-account gaff of June 2005… which beats the Mishou Bank, the Japanese operation that “misplaced” confidential data for 270,000 customers. And who could forget Jason Smathers, the kid who got an 18 month timeout in February for peddling over 90 million purloined AOL records?

In light of the developed world’s dismal security record, India may be the safer bet. Either way, your personal details have been up for grabs all along.