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• Legal issues in the Cloud - Part 4

  By Mark Vincent and Nick Hart | 11 April, 2011 06:00

  One of the remaining key issues Cloud users need to consider relates to the notion of being locked-in to certain applications or systems — and if a user wants to transfer data or applications from the Cloud, whether the data is portable between service providers. In these circumstances, a user will need to consider its requirements to access data some years into the future for a plethora of regulatory reasons.

• Legal issues in the Cloud - Part 3

  By Mark Vincent and Nick Hart | 10 April, 2011 06:00

  Proper due diligence focuses on identifying the players in the Cloud relationship. That is, who is actually involved in providing the services and are they the same entity (or entities) that are processing or storing data? In the case of aggregators, for example, a Cloud user could be dealing with a single entity which itself is provided services by various third parties.

• Legal issues in the Cloud - Part 2

  By Mark Vincent and Nick Hart | 09 April, 2011 06:00

  Unlike a fixed server in your office or at a data centre in Australia, data in the Cloud can potentially be located anywhere in the world — even in multiple data centres in multiple copies worldwide. A Cloud service provider may not even know where the data resides at any one time. The Cloud may not be tied to any particular location but this is clearly not the case with the laws of each country. Any ‘global’ technology solution will be impacted by the laws of a large number of nation states. As a result, sending and processing data around the globe could, in the process, fail to comply with data protection and privacy laws in various countries.

• Legal issues in the Cloud - Part 1

  By Mark Vincent and Nick Hart | 08 April, 2011 10:01

  The Cloud can be cheaper, more flexible, easier to manage and efficient. But users and providers of Cloud services have to weigh these advantages against the risks or perceived risks — such as regulatory compliance, security, performance, availability of service, and liabilities and remedies under the governing contracts.

• Cloud Computing Poses Control Issues for IT

  By Kevin Fogarty | 18 May, 2010 04:42

  Though most U.S. companies still list customer and other corporate information as their most valuable assets, many keep pushing this data farther from safe lockdown in the data center--and are about to give it another strong shove in that direction.

• Social Media Safety: Acceptable-Use Policies Critical

  By Kristin Burnham | 09 April, 2010 04:11

  It's a Catch-22 for many companies and IT departments: Allow access to social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, and the company is opened up to malicious content, phishing schemes and account hijackings. Block all social media sites, and the business risks losing young talent to competitors or will challenge employees to find workarounds. Which can be equally dangerous.

• 6 Ways We Gave Up Our Privacy

  By Bill Brenner | 14 October, 2009 06:17

  Here's how privacy went the way of the dinosaur, how we let it happen and how we might be able to get some of it back

• Facebook users to get more privacy; developers, less freedom

  By C.G. Lynch | 29 August, 2009 03:50

  On Facebook, the struggle to figure out who owns and accesses our data remains years away from any resolution - if we ever reach one. Yesterday, Facebook announced that it would act to shore up some privacy concerns that were voiced a month ago by Jennifer Stoddart, the privacy commissioner of Canada.

• Facebook to tighten privacy after Canadian investigation

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 28 August, 2009 05:05

  Facebook will enhance its social-networking site's privacy features over the next 12 months as a result of a set of recommendations from the Canadian government.

• Does Google know too much about you?

  By Ian Paul | 11 July, 2009 05:22

  Do you trust Google? If you use its multitude of online services on a daily basis you might, but is that assumption wise? For some, Google is a wonderful company with a broad selection of useful online tools that make life easier, but for others Google is a looming, unregulated monster just waiting for the moment to drop the 'don't' from the company's unofficial motto, "Don't be evil."

• Swedish regulators look at handling of mobile location data

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 June, 2009 00:40

  The sale of location information from mobile operators to service providers could result in privacy issues, and needs to be investigated, two Swedish regulators said on Tuesday.

• Opting out of targeted ads too hard, privacy advocates say

  By Grant Gross | 04 June, 2009 04:49

  The online advertising industry and U.S. policy makers need to give online users more control over the collection of personal data and surfing habits beyond the traditional opt-out approach, some privacy advocates said Wednesday.

• What the Web knows about you

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 28 January, 2009 08:12

  She had me at hello ... or just about. Our conversation had barely started when privacy activist Betty Ostergren interrupted me to say that she had found my full name, address, Social Security number and a digital image of my signature on the Web.

• How to Set Your Facebook Privacy Settings

  By C.G. Lynch | 16 September, 2008 14:13

  Facebook, since its mistakes with the Beacon advertising incident, has rolled out one of the most robust security systems for any social network, which allows users to control who sees what information about them with great specificity. Take a look at Facebook's privacy features and how to set yours.