Tangled Data Protection Laws Threaten Cloud, Critics Say
December 13, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Wyatt Cash.
As IT leaders get more comfortable moving their data operations into the cloud, concerns are growing about conflicting international laws that govern data generated in one country and stored in another. Policymakers around the world are fueling those concerns. Anxious to protect data privacy and security, they are advocating requirements to store certain types of data domestically, says Daniel Castro, a senior analyst with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
Those policies, however, are not only creating headaches for technology managers moving data across the globe, they’re also bumping up against delicate free trade agreements that involve senior government officials well beyond the reach of the typical CIO’s office…
"We’re finding that companies are being caught in the middle [between conflicting privacy and security laws]," said Castro in an interview with InformationWeek. The economic stakes have grown so significant that the ITIF recommended this week that the US and its trade partners develop a "Geneva Convention" to address the conflicts and what appears to be a growing wave of "data nationalism."…
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