PRISM should make businesses think twice about cloud computing
June 28, 2013
Grazed from TechWorld. Author: Sophie Curtis.
Businesses worldwide need to re-think their use of cloud computing, in light of recent revelations around the PRISM and Tempora surveillance programmes, according to independent privacy advocate Caspar Bowden.
Speaking at a House of Commons debate, chaired by Labour MP Tom Watson, Bowden said that the UK is in an “extremely exposed” position, because of its relationship with the US National Security Agency (NSA)…
While PRISM and GCHQ’s surveillance programme Tempora focus on consumer-facing cloud services like Facebook and Google, Bowden believes that there may be other programmes that tap into business cloud services like Azure, Google Apps and Amazon…
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