Considerations for using cloud services to store records
At the recent RSA conference an attorney pointed out that cloud services have an impact on e-discovery - the turning over of electronic documents in response to lawsuits.
First, businesses are legally required to keep certain kinds of records and entrusting them to a cloud service provider can muddy that distinction. You could argue that by hiring a third party to store such records, a business is losing control of it and therefore breaking the rules about keeping it.
In a more concrete sense, if the provider messes up and somehow the records are lost or otherwise inaccessible, the business that entrusted them to the cloud is responsible. That could result in more lawsuits than the one for which the records were being subpoenaed, the attorney says.To Continue Reading: Click Here
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Source: law.com
By: Shari Claire Lewis
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