While cloud computing is emerging, transparency, confidentiality and control are key concerns of potential cloud clients. Cloud clients often lack the necessary information on how the information moved to the cloud is safeguarded, processed, and what happens in case they want to move to another provider or their provider terminates its operation or changes the terms of its policies? At the European Commission’s urging, the national data protection authorities and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) developed the new standard ISO/IEC 27018. The acceptance of the standard and the ability to live up to the expectations of its developers still remains to be seen in practice, report Irene Kamara, Vagelis Papakonstantinou and Paul de Hert in this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor. Editor’s Note: Please see recent posts in Privacy Perspectives and Privacy Tracker about the new cloud standard.
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