As long as managers get a pat on the back for putting things into the cloud and bear none of the risk, can't see this changing.
Privacy lawsuits: Will sueballs lobbed at US cloud services hit you where it HURTS?
Thinking of using US cloud services, outsourcing to a US-based provider or just leasing a piece of their cloud and concerned about lawsuits? Here's some food for thought. Privacy, of course, became the overarching concern of many after former US National Security Agency sysadmin Edward Snowden leaked documents about the …
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Friday 13th September 2013 16:48 GMT Eguro
Great article!
One thing I find confusing in all this privacy-lawsuit talk, if what exactly such a suit would hope to achieve.
Securing my data and getting it out of the hands of the foreign powers that be (most likely way too late now) would be my primary aim I guess.
But in what way would a business have to pay for sending my private info to incompatible zones?
Some monetary compensation? This is where you'll get the "but there's been no monetary harm" argument from some. So my question would wind up as: How much does it cost to violate the privacy of any one person? How is a privacy violation measured in terms of monetary harm?
Paris because that's how these topics make me feel sometimes
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Saturday 14th September 2013 00:42 GMT Yet Another Anonymous coward
.... shareholders ....
Nobody really cares if the NSA are slurping your customers data
But if you are an IT manager at a Brazillian oil company and you put all the data in a US cloud to save a few $.
Now mysteriously US Oil companies all seem to underbid you in contracts
Then your shareholders might want a bit of your bonus back