Head in the cloud: who is responsible for our data in the cloud?

Grazed from LegalWeek. Author: Robert Bond.

Data privacy regulations are becoming more complex in today’s changing IT landscape, and the consequences are huge. It’s increasingly important for businesses to keep up to date on legal and regulatory issues of using public cloud while complying with the EU data protection framework.

In terms of the current issues, it goes without saying that data and information is at the heart of any business – whether you are dealing with commercial contracts, M&A, big data, the internet of things, outsourcing and of course public and private cloud. It’s inevitable that almost all of these things will involve some movement or processing of personal data…

Concerns about the cloud

The global nature of the cloud and the security of data are important, particularly in a world where there is government intervention in personal data, nation state hacking, politically motivated hacking and just straightforward operator error. All these are things raise the stakes…

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