GDPR will help the Googles and the Amazons extend their cloud dominance

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Sead Fadilpašic.

European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), set to kick off in May 2018, is going to help the big players in the cloud industry to dominate even more, while the little guy won’t stand a chance. This is according to Kuan Hon, consultant lawyer at law firm Pinsent Masons.

Speaking at the Computing Cloud and Infrastructure Summit, Hon said that the GDPR will force companies into so much administration only large companies will see profit in cloud. "It will be a big change for sub-processors," said Hon. "Prior consent will be needed and notification of changes, as well as what they call a ‘terms flowdown’. …

So, for example, you could have a contract with a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, which has to have certain minimum terms under GDPR. "However, the SaaS providers’ contract with their own infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) or platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider also needs to have pretty much the same terms because that’s a requirement of GDPR. It’s really hard to know how far down the chain this has to go," said Hon…

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