Plummer said the guidelines are applicable in the educational environment, namely owing to the growing number of compliance issues and regulatory rules. "Schools have to deal with all kinds of matters along these lines," said Plummer, who added that schools in Florida, for example, must comply with the state's sunshine law, which requires all state, county, and municipal records to be open for personal inspection and copying by any person.
The right to retain ownership, use, and control of one's own data is one area that Plummer cited as especially relevant for institutions using cloud computing. "Basically what we're saying is that you should have the right to look at your own data, even when that data is placed on a cloud server," said Gartner. "In the university setting, there's intellectual property flying all over the place--from researchers sending files to one another to the e-mail system that's running on a Google or Yahoo data center."
In the latter scenario, Plummer said, questions like "Is the researcher the sole owner of the data?" and "Does Google retain some ownership of the data?" can create problems between the university and the SaaS provider. "The vendor will say that it doesn't own the data, but history has shown that cloud computing providers have asserted themselves and used some of the data without approval," Plummer said. In one instance, a photo that was uploaded through Google was later used (without approval of the user) in a company billboard advertisement.
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