While David Lazarus' recent columns about outsourcing and privacy in San Francisco Chronicle below are not directly related to technology of web of services, they nevertheless illustrate privacy, consumer safety, intellectual property and trade relations problems that web of services faces as it becomes more tangled and widespread by technology.

• "A tough lesson on medical privacy - Pakistani transcriber threatens UCSF over back pay"
• "Privacy takes a backseat"
• "A politician who reads the papers"
• "BofA to send tech work, data to India"
• "SBC quietly spins off jobs to India"