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There was an interesting article, and lots of follow-up, recently talking about some recent issues with different services in the cloud. Specifically, the issues revolved around legal access to data stored in the cloud.
It seems that information stored for longer than 3 months or so on such a service crosses over into a category of storage and utility that means it can be accessed by serving appropriate warrants or other legal processes to the cloud provider. In some cases, this can be done without notifying the owner of the information (such as cases where they think that by knowing, the owner could/would/might destroy information).
This seems to me to be something that we need to address too for data (as in SQL Server data and application data) stored in the cloud, not just the vast majority of things that are there now like documents and email. Perhaps we need a system where the information stored in the cloud is done so encrypted, with keys that are owned by the information owner….only. That way the cloud provider returns to being just that, a service provider, without having responsibility (or access) for/to the data on their systems. I haven’t seen this discussed anywhere quite yet though. This doesn’t mean it hasn’t been, just that it’s not caught my eye to date.
I realize most people never, ever have to deal with these situations, and I’m certainly not a big conspiracy theory kind of person, but I do think it’s an issue of reasonableness in controlling access to information. At what point does the privacy liability transfer to, or get shared by the provider? There are some interesting questions here.
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