Crist urged to warn workers / Personnel data may have gone overseas
Source: By Bill Cotterell, Tallahassee Democrat (FL), Jan 18, 2006
Lawyers for state employees urged Attorney General Charlie Crist's office Tuesday to make Convergys warn tens of thousands of state workers that their confidential personnel data - including Social Security and bank-routing numbers - may have been illegally sent to computer companies in India, China and Barbados. "When you close the barn door after the horse has escaped, that horse is personally identifiable data for thousands of state employees and their families," said Alma Gonzalez, special counsel for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. "We've got to catch that horse." .... People First is Gov. Jeb Bush's biggest privatization project - a $350 million, nine-year contract for Convergys to provide online personnel services. The system has been haunted by big and small glitches for three years, but the Department of Management Services has recently said it is running much better.