Cloud-operators want to harmonized EU data protection

Cloud-operators want to harmonized EU data protection

Some participants of the three-month public consultation on EU on the topic Cloud Computing have published their responses.Google criticized in detail in his opinion  the current situation:The sixteen-year-old EU Directive 95/46  Privacy isimplemented in individual member countries are so different that a cloud provider should deal thoroughly with 27 rules. This leads toeven different views of the respective data protection authorities on issues such as Safe Harbor Agreement  with the United States.The law firm Bird & Bird argues in its opinion onexamples of national differences.

In the same vein as Google beats Microsoft: A harmonized EU data protection law had since cloud providershould only be subject to the laws of a state. The most suitable is the one in which the provider operates most of its infrastructure. In addition, we need "more flexible rules" for data transfer. Theexisting limitations on the transfer of data from the EuropeanEconomic Area EU could prevent users to use all the possibilities of cloud.

Other priorities set  Scientists from Queen Mary University ofLondon. They require, among other things, such as anonymization and encryption techniques to protect more use of cloud data.Encrypted data should, according to the researchers, are not considered "personal information" and therefore may be usedfreely by all, do not have the key.

Furthermore, there is criticism of the distinction between "responsible for the data processing" and "processor" in the current EU Directives and to restrictions on certain sectors such as health and finance - they closed the operation so far from the cloudextent.