1 Dec 2011 02:20
Re: [U2] Cloud Legal Question - and a request for Contact Info - ITLegal Issues
John Hester <JHester <at> momtex.com>
2011-12-01 01:20:56 GMT
2011-12-01 01:20:56 GMT
There's a decent bullet-point presentation on cloud legal issues available on Cisco's site: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/privacy_compliance/d ocs/CloudPrimer.pdf As far as liability for data theft, it sounds like that's negotiable between the client and cloud provider. I doubt there's any standard at this point. There are a whole host of federal and state regulations that come into play regarding theft of personal data, though. If you're storing business to consumer sales data, there is potentially a lot to consider. Business to business data is probably much less of an issue. -John -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-bounces <at> listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-bounces <at> listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of John Thompson Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 1:25 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] Cloud Legal Question - and a request for Contact Info - ITLegal Issues The company I work for is looking at a product that stores a bunch of "our" sales data in the "cloud" Our internal legal person had a look at the contract that the company is proposing and apparently it has a little clause in their that they are not liable if the data gets stolen.(Continue reading)
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