Posts relating to cloud technologies at all levels of the stack, whether Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, or any other…
A new Opinion on Cloud Computing from the Article 29 Working Party highlights a number of difficulties in applying current data protection law to the cloud computing model and suggests that changes are needed both to cloud contracts and to European law. The main concerns are over lack of control by the client using the […]
The Article 29 Working Party have published an interesting toolbox for Binding Corporate Rules (BCR) for Data Processors. BCRs for Data Controllers have been suggested for some time as a way that large multi-national companies can comply with European Data Protection law. By having its internal rules for handling personal data approved as compliant with […]
I’ve just sent in a Janet Submission to the Ministry of Justice’s Call for Evidence on the EU Data Protection proposals. Our response mentions the good and bad things about the proposal, as discussed here previously, for Internet Identifiers: still no clarity on when IP addresses etc. are personal data, but at least more realistic […]
Cloud computing, whose whole point is to be independent of geography, does not fit comfortably into current data protection law. The Commission’s new proposal at least shows signs that clouds were a use case that was considered during drafting, so it is more obvious which provisions apply to them. These seem to offer a mixture […]
Last week the European Commission published their proposed new Data Protection legislation. This will now be discussed and probably amended by the European Parliament and Council of Ministers before it becomes law, a process that most commentators expect to take at least two years. There’s a lot in the proposal so this post will just […]
Matt Cook’s talk at Networkshop explained Loughborough University’s thinking on how virtualisation might be used to provide both resilience and flexibility by allowing services to be moved between different locations in both internal and external clouds. Rather than virtualising a single server, this involves creating a virtual container holding the various components required to deliver […]
Cloud computing was the theme of the day at the FIRST conference, with talks on security and incident response both concluding that we may need to re-learn old techniques. The adoption of at least some form of “cloud” seems to be inevitable, so we need to understand how to do this with an acceptable level […]