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Cloud service providers store data all over the globe, and are constantly moving that data from one datacenter to the next for reasons as wide-ranging as cost considerations and redundancy requirements. Does this mean that the requirements outlined in varying data residency laws and privacy regulations are directly at odds with how cloud computing works?
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Excellent article! Cloud Encryption, similar to what Mega are using, where the decryption key is held by the client rather than the cloud storage providor would solve most of the issues. Delete the scoop?
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Don't follow the herd when making your technology choices. And don't make the same old assumptions about the capabilities of cloud computing.
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Although security is no longer a major issue, it is going to be very difficult to convince certain entities, whose business it is to deal with sensitve client data, to switch to the Public cloud. On the other hand, a Private cloud is not going to be lowering costs enough to entice a switch. Enter the Hybrid, the best solution for companies that still mistrust the Public cloud. Delete the scoop?
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Online privacy advocate Kim Dotcom has plans to expand Mega, his new file-sharing site, to include secure email, chat, voice, video and mobile services.
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I tend to agree with Mr Dotcom. If there is one thing that bothers me about the internet, it is privacy. That said and done, it is not going to be an easy task to get people to change their present arrangements.
Take email as a prime example. Out of all the free cloud email services, I find that Gmail has been superior for years. Yahoo Mail and Hotmail (now Outlook) have only just became decent competition. Yet even during the heydays when the latter 2 services were poor in most departments including security, we did not see a huge migration to Gmail.
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A recent survey finds many employees worry BYOD is an excuse to invade privacy by tracking their location and software installs.
"Bring your own device" may be touted as a winning policy for workers and employers, but a recent survey finds many employees worry that it's an excuse to invade their privacy.
The worry springs from marrying mobile location tracking features, such as GPS and triangulation, with mobile device management (MDM) applications that can record such information and also identify the apps that users install on their smartphones and tablets. Delete the scoop?
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A survey on UK businesses reveals that cloud services are growing in adoption and delivering positive results by those have used them.
The main “culprits” of the positive cloud adoption trends in the UK is due the real benefits offered by the cloud: Flexibility, cost saving and low cost of adoption. And UK decision makers are ready to use more of the cloud: 73 percent expect their cloud adoption to increase over the next 12 months. Delete the scoop?
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As we migrate personal data to the cloud, it seems that we trade convenience for privacy. It's convenient, for example, to access my address book from any connected device I happen to use. But when I park my address book in the cloud in order to gain this benefit, I expose my data to the provider of that cloud service. Delete the scoop?
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A visual representation of how Facebook Graph Search will affect you and how to customize your privacy settings to better control who sees the content you post.
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It is important that users are aware that privacy settings within Facebook allow control on what personal content you want to share. Delete the scoop?
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Data sovereignty and privacy concerns resulting from the extension of US-government mass-surveillance powers should not dissuade Australian businesses from considering and adopting cloud computing services.
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Interesting article on the US Government's (and certain other governments') fixation to spy on its people. Delete the scoop?
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Cloud computing services from outside the U.S. are trying to exploit perceived weaknesses in privacy laws to drive business away from U.S. providers, according to some representatives of the tech industry. Delete the scoop?
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Organisations investing in off-shore cloud services could find themselves on the pointy end of legal action should the privacy of Australians be breached as a result, Victoria's acting privacy commissioner has warned. Delete the scoop?
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A grave threat is said to be stalking Europe. No, it isn’t the financial crisis and the potential demise of the euro. It’s the “rapacious” U.S. approach to privacy — which portends, for those engaged in the development of cloud architecture, a coming “clash” of privacy laws. Delete the scoop?
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