Comments on: Privacy guide to cloud computing

By: Fletch

Fletch — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:24:09 +0000

Link to a very good site that lets you manage all your cloud sites from one place for FREE – https://www.cloudkafe.com/

By: davidp

davidp — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:21:19 +0000

One section reads: “It’s vital to maintain your relationship with the people whose information you hold. They have entrusted you with their personal information. You need to be able to assure them that it’s being looked after. If you let them down, you’ll lose their trust – and quite probably their business.”

She should add that you might lose their business, unless you’re government where you can run a slack approach to IT security and privacy and people have no choice but to keep dealing with you.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:45:01 +0000

Nothing in there resembles the coroners pontifications.

It appears to be useful points worth considering and not based on posturing or politics. Fair advice for the uninitiated. Nice that they mention “Recognise that the responsibility is ultimately yours”. If only the rest of govt would take a similar position.

Also this has a huge overlap with information security generally. You don’t need cloud to fuck up in this area. Just ask WINZ, or anyone still using Rails.

I wonder though: how is this supposed to find its way into the reading list of its target audience?

By: barry

barry — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:49:33 +0000

Oh – more stuff that sounds similar to the stupidity of the coroners pronouncements.

Why cant we just be told – “there are risks involved in using cloud storage. It maybe subject to the juristiction of other states. You will need to be aware that there maybe privacy issues if you use cloud storage – not the least being that the USA may have the site closed and you will lose access to the files”

And let people run the normal risks of doing business.