Legal challenges to cloud computing: Does physical location matter?

详细信息   

• 作者：Cianfaro ; Michael.
• 学历：M.S.
• 年：2014
• 关键词：Cybersecurity ; capstone ; Christopher Riddell ; Fourth
• 毕业院校：Utica College
• Department：Cybersecurity
• ISBN：9781303876288
• CBH：1555341
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：2679985
• Pages：63

文摘

The purpose of the research was to examine the laws that are governing cloud computing,if any. It was designed to determine if the physical location of the data really does matter when referring to these laws. Government access was examined in regard to who owned the data and where it was stored,from the U.S. and EU perspective. Also examined were the data breach notification laws for each the U.S. and the EU. And third the USA PATRIOT Act was looked at to see if it had an effect on how Europe felt about using American cloud computing solutions. It was found that location does in fact matter when referring to cloud computing and its data. Ownership of the data also matters when the government requests the data because some people have greater protections than other. In the U.S. there is no general data breach notification law it has been left up to the states at this point. In the EU there is a current law that attempts to regulate who and when is notified but there are loopholes for companies to get through so they would never have to notify their customers. The USA PATRIOT Act does impact Europe's opinion of the U.S. cloud computing industry in a negative way. It is important for companies to understand the laws because cloud computing is growing at such a fast rate and is in very many cases an international business issue. The U.S. and the EU both need to enact more clear legislation on cloud computing and how to regulate it. While this may not be an international effort if these two governing bodies can agree on some issues then the cloud computing business will flourish.