The UK government's G-Cloud initiative will never reach its full potential because it is hamstrung by data privacy laws, according to officials from Lockheed Martin, the US arms and aerospace manufacturer commissioned to administer the UK 2011 census.
"We need to be clear that legislation is an impediment," Melvin Greer, chief strategist for Lockheed Martin, the largest provider of cloud services to the US government, told the audience at IBM Pulse.
Privacy and confidentiality will continue to be a problem for the UK's G-Cloud unless legislation catches up with the cloud, according to Greer.
"What is lagging behind of course is the legislation. Security is a technical thing, but privacy and confidentiality are legal things," he said.
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Source: computing.co.uk
By: Derek du Preez
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