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Regulation on the Horizon for Cloud Services

By Ryan Vogel posted on January 20th, 2010

It appears like the regulatory heat is about to be turned up on cloud computing services.

Spurred by last years high profile outages amongst cloud computing finest services including Gmail, Windows Azure, and Salesforce.com, the FTC will hold a privacy roundtable Jan. 28th.  The FTC has decided this should be part of the public debate concerning its recommendations for the FCC’s upcoming broadband plan coming early this year. More »

Posted in Cloud Computing, Privacy

Dark Clouds For Facebook User Privacy?

By Ryan Vogel posted on December 29th, 2009

Everyone has heard a story about a lost job, broken relationship or other disaster brought about by ignorance of privacy settings on various social networking sites.  Recently Facebook decided to make some changes to their privacy policies that in effect urged users to share everything with everyone despite the prevalence of these kinds of stories. More »

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