Saturday, 28. January 2012
Topic: SECURITY - on January 28, 2012 at 11:09:00 PM CET
New privacy laws could boost EU cloud industry
The proposed legislation could make organisations more wary about where their data is held
The European Union's data protection proposals, announced earlier this week, could unsettle end users looking at cloud adoption, but European cloud providers stand to benefit, according to Andy Burton, chairman of the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF).
Speaking to Techworld at Cloud Expo Europe in London yesterday, Burton said that, while there is a risk that sovereign law could come into conflict with the new EU legislation around data protection, that risk has been greatly over-exaggerated.
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