May 27th, 2008

Storm Warning for Cloud Computing

Bill Thompson, BBC News

The physical location of our online services still matter a great deal, argues Bill Thompson.

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The Canadians are rather concerned about this, and rightly so. According to the US-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group that helped the Internet Archive successfully challenge an NSL, more than 200,000 were issued between 2003 and 2006, and the chances are that Google, Microsoft and Amazon were on the recipient list.

Related Issues: Privacy

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