Queen Mary University of London

Proposed EU Data Protection laws unlikely to promote cloud computing, warns Professor Millard

The European Commission's draft Data Protection Regulation is intended to be ‘cloud friendly’. Will it work? Professor Christopher Millard, leader of the Cloud Legal Project at Queen Mary, University ...
lawgazette.co.uk

Law, the cloud and data

Gazette IT columnist Joanna Goodman considers lawyers’ use of ‘the cloud’ and their ability to harness ‘big data’. Last year, the Cloud Law European Summit at the Law Society demonstrated that while ...
Computing

Reform UK faces legal challenge over data failures

Reform UK is facing a lawsuit after allegedly ignoring its legal obligations under data protection laws. The Good Law Project has launched legal action against Nigel Farage’s Reform UK on behalf of 51 ...
Politico Europe

German watchdog says Amazon cloud vulnerable to US snooping

BERLIN — Amazon's cloud hosting services are not suitable for storing German police data due to a risk of U.S. snooping, Germany's top data protection officer told POLITICO. Ulrich Kelber, Germany's ...
Queen Mary University of London

Proposed EU Data Protection laws unlikely to promote cloud computing, warns Professor Millard

"Commissioner Kroes stated that the proposals will 'make it easier to operate a cloud across the EU, with a single point of contact' and 'make it easier to operate outside the EU, too, with simplified ...