Pew survey highlights worries over privacy as well as benefits of cloud...
In “Cloud computing takes hold despite privacy fears” Heather Havenstein (Computerworld) 09/15/2008 writes for Networkworld that, although computer users are increasingly making use of ‘cloud...
View ArticleOnline personal data: new ICO code goes lives as e-book
The ICO’s long awaited “Personal Information Online Code of Practice” has arrived. Fittingly, it is available as an interactive e-book with some fun graphics (Datonomy particularly likes the mock...
View ArticleLocation, location… Article 29 WP opinion on applicable law
The recent Opinion on applicable law published by the Article 29 Working Party will be of interest to anyone pondering data protection issues relating to cloud computing, to EU multi nationals and to...
View ArticleCloud Computing rejected by the Danish Data Protection Agency
On 3 February 2011 the Danish Data Protection Agency (Datatilsynet) issued an opinion on cloud computing. In its opinion the DPA rejects the Municipality of Odense’s use of cloud computing to store...
View ArticleDo you BYOD? Is your organisation DP compliant?
With the Bank Holiday weekend fast approaching many Datonomy readers are likely to be taking some work home, checking into emails and looking at other work functions over the break. And the chances...
View ArticleUSA – EU spying affair: practical consequences for commercial data transfers?
Datonomy considers the Germany authorities’ reaction to the PRISM affair, and the wider practical consequences this could have for international transfers being made under the auspices of U.S. Safe...
View ArticleNew Cloud Security Standards – ISO 27017 and 27018 on the horizon
The ISO is developing specific new security standards for cloud services, which are expected to be published in 2015. This is another welcome step towards ensuring compliance with the principles in the...
View ArticleEU: New standardisation guidelines for cloud computing services SLAs
These new guidelines were published in June by the Cloud Select Industry Group. Forming part of the European Commission’s wider Cloud Computing strategy which was unveiled in 2012, the guidelines have...
View ArticleOlswang Cyber Alert October 2014 published
As Datonomy readers may know October is Cybersecurity Month – a good time to read the second edition of Olswang’s Cyber Alert. There is no doubt that cyber security is rising up the international as...
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