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Cloud computing legal issues
The document discusses several key legal issues related to cloud computing: 1) Compliance can be difficult when cloud services are geographically decentralized and contracts impose auditing requirements. Applicable law and jurisdiction are also unclear when services are provided across borders. 2) Cloud providers face legal liability for illegal data hosted on their services. However, laws in India and other places provide liability protection if the provider is unaware and removes illegal data upon awareness. 3) Loss of data location challenges cybercrime investigations and applying legal jurisdiction. However, conventions like the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime provide for legal access of data across borders with user consent.
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- 3. Legal Issues inCloud Computing Liability Law Compliance Copyright Data Portability www.cyberlawconsulting.com
- 4. Why Cloud Computing •Cloud Computing services offer low barrier to entry and easy scaling possibilities. • Easy “click-wrap agreements” • Agility/ Flexibility of Technology • Always ON – ubiquitous • Real Time Information and Immediate feedback www.cyberlawconsulting.com
- 5. Compliance of CloudComputing • Auditing requirements Many contracts impose auditing possibilities that include physical inspection how can these auditing requirements be complied with when geographically decentralized cloud services are used? • Applicable Law & Competent court If outside own country, any litigation can become prohibitively expensive . . • What happens in case of bankruptcy of the cloud computing service provider? www.cyberlawconsulting.com
- 6. Compliance as perThe IT Rules, 2011 • The intermediary shall observe following due diligence while discharging his duties, namely : ― • (1) The intermediary shall publish the rules and regulations, privacy policy and user agreement for access or usage of the intermediary’s computer resource by any person. • (2) Such rules and regulations, terms and conditions or user agreement shall inform the users of computer resource not to host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information that …. • If such hosting reported action to be taken in 36 hours • FACTS : Drop Box , Rapid Share, Gmail Storage contains infinite pornography, pirated s/w , songs etc www.cyberlawconsulting.com
- 7. Law for CloudComputing Service • Cloud computing service providers are intermediary as per The IT Act, 2000 • S2(1)(w) "Intermediary" with respect to any particular electronic records, means any person who on behalf of another person receives, stores or transmits that record or provides any service with respect to that record and includes telecom service providers, network service providers, internet service providers, web hosting service providers, search engines, online payment sites, online-auction sites, online market places and cyber cafes; www.cyberlawconsulting.com
- 8. Indemnity Issues inCloud Computing We and our licensors shall not be responsible for any service interruptions, including, without limitation, power outages, system failures or other interruptions, including those that affect the receipt, processing, acceptance, completion or settlement of any payment services. (...) Neither we nor any of our licensors shall be liable to you for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including, but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other losses (...) Who will indemnify the Customer or the user ?
- 9. Agreement Clauses inCloud Service • ”You are utilizing a shared disk model and we cannot RISK the chance your third party may interfere with other clients using the same platform”. • What happens to risk mitigation ? www.cyberlawconsulting.com
- 10. Legal Liability ofCloud Providers • Including India many jurisdictions, cloud providers can be held liable for the illegal data they may be hosting Escape Routes • no liability for services that “consist of” the storage of electronic information under the condition that the provider has No knowledge or awareness of illegal nature. • ..and removes or blocks illegal data when it does gain knowledge or become aware of illegal nature • Liability protection does not prevent so-called injunctions, which can be as costly and timeconsuming www.cyberlawconsulting.com
- 11. Loss Of Locationin Cloud Computing • With Indian Investigation agencies, Loss of location is likely to cripple cybercrime investigations at a very early stage. • The Budapest Convention on Cybercrime already features a legal principle which overrules location as a legal connecting factor: Consent. Article 32 of the Budapest Convention states: • Article 32 – Trans-border access to stored computer data with consent or where publicly available • India not a Signatory to Convention on Cybercrime www.cyberlawconsulting.com
- 12. Letter rogatory anoption • The Interpol can take necessary follow up steps for this the local police issues letters rogatory under the provisions of Section 166 A Cr PC. www.cyberlawconsulting.com
- 13. Data Portability onCloud • Who is really managing my company’s sensitive information? • What are their internal security practices? How well do they handle incident response? • How reliable is the infrastructure that provides the service? • Are they prone to service outages? • How can my service provider recover my cloud stuff? • What is H/W & S/W Portability of my DATA ? www.cyberlawconsulting.com
- 14. Copyright Issues forData on Cloud • Cloud storage as offered by Box.net and other providers like Dropbox do offer some of the features of file sharing that a recent court ruling found illegal. • RIAA v/s LimeWire. (Recording Industry Association of America) • RIAA?? which took NAPSTER DOWN) www.cyberlawconsulting.com
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