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Cloud increasing pressure in U.S. for updated online privacy law

It appears that the growing adoption of cloud computing, combined with the outdated Electronic Communications Privacy Act, is adding pressure in the U.S. for an updated online privacy law to help better protect cloud computers.

CNET is reporting today that “a broad coalition of companies including Google, Microsoft, and AT&T, joined by liberal and conservative advocacy groups, will announce a major push [today] to update federal privacy laws to protect mobile and cloud computing users”.

Of course, in Canada, cloud computers have the benefit of PIPEDA and – where they exist – substantially similar provincial privacy laws. To learn more about cloud computing, and related privacy law implications, you may want to check out this previous post from my “On the Cutting Edge” blog.

March 30, 2010 - Posted by Ron Greasley | Cloud Computing, Data Protection, Privacy | Cloud Computing, Data Protection, Privacy