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Microsoft, the USA PATRIOT Act, and European cloud computing

Microsoft, the USA PATRIOT Act, and European cloud computing

By Paul Miller on January 9, 2012

Microsoft announced last month that its Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, Office 365, will better comply with European guidelines to ensure that customer data is adequately protected. This move is certainly welcome, but the long-armed spectre of the USA PATRIOT Act continues to hang over Microsoft and other US companies, regardless of customers’ nationality […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged amazon, cloud computing, data privacy, data protection, data protection act, Data Protection Directive, dpa, European Commission, european data protection, European Union, European Union law, microsoft, Microsoft Office 365, Office 365, Patriot Act, personal privacy, United States | 1 Response

Dropbox Shows Why We Can't Have The Cloud The Way We Imagined

Dropbox Shows Why We Can’t Have The Cloud The Way We Imagined

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 21, 2011

For the past few weeks, Tech Media is buzzing with discussions on Dropbox (see previous CloudAve coverage) security. Dropbox from their modest beginnings have grown big with 25 Million users. Recently, a security engineer Derek Newton exposed a serious security issue with them where they store the machine hash in an unencrypted form in any machine […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged data privacy, data security, dropbox, federated clouds, government subpoena, governments, insights | 2 Responses

The Cat is Out of the Bag (Again): The Hidden (?) Business Model in SaaS

By Zoli Erdos on June 1, 2009

Forget software: it’s all about (your) data. Hyper-growing Financial Management system  provider and Quicken / MS Money challenger Mint recently raised eyebrows announcing their plan to sell anonymized aggregate customer data.  Some reviewers were screaming, we saw bombastic titles like Personal Finance Startup Mint Wants To Sell Your Money Trail – but in reality the […]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged aggregate data, benchmarking, business model, ByD, data ownership, data privacy, freshbooks, mint, saan, saas | 5 Responses

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