Organisations investing in off-shore cloud services could find themselves on the pointy end of legal action should the privacy of Australians be breached as a result, Victoria's acting privacy commissioner has warned.
Laying out the government's position on the legal status of cloud computing in a wide-ranging speech at the recent Evolve.Cloud conference, Dr Anthony Bendall noted that concerns about the privacy-compromising potential of new technologies are nothing new, citing concern in the 1890s over the then-nascent field of photography.
Cloud computing has had a similar effect, with vendors' and customers' technological aspirations tempered by ongoing discussions about the legal and risk status of cloud-computing providers in relation to the personal data of Australians.
Many companies have already rushed into the cloud ignorant of privacy concerns, Bendall said. "I have seen the willingness of organisations to rush headlong into projects that promise to save tens of thousands of dollars and increase productivity, but without stepping back to consider obligations such as privacy," he explained.
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Source: cso.com.au
By: David Braue
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