The controversy surrounding the U.S. government’s reported monitoring of online data via FISA court orders and projects like PRISM may have far-reaching implications for users of public cloud computing. Specifically, it could drive more enterprise customers towards storage solutions that are held behind the corporate firewall.
File-storage service ownCloud, for example, is already seeing validation of its approach to house data inside the client company’s infrastructure, not out in the cloud.
The recent agreement between the US and the EU is the third attempt to secure the transfer of personal data from Europe to the US. Holger Dyroff, co-founder and COO of ownCloud, does not see the new regulatory attempt as a satisfactory solution.
In a position paper, Germany’s top data protection officials outline how they envision sovereign clouds. Their demands are welcome, but do not go far enough, laments Holger Dyroff, Co-Founder and COO of ownCloud.
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) might be exhausting, but it is a success story. The European Commission should use the fifth anniversary of the GDPR to reconsider “Privacy Shield 2.0”, opines Holger Dyroff, Co-Founder and COO of ownCloud.