Social business software is all about sharing content and data in a “collaborative” way to identify internal or external experts. Most of these data must be considered as personal data which is related to an individual person. Implementing social business technologies in enterprises often leads to discussion with data protection supervisors how to be compliant with EU data protection law. This discussion gets even more challenging if you consider using social business applications in “the cloud” which might the only choice in the near future due IBMs “Cloud First” or Microsoft’s “Cloud only” delivery model. This session will give you an overview - about EU data protection regulations - its implications for using social business systems - special considerations for using cloud based social business systems