Patriot Act Clouds the Picture For U.S.-Based Cloud Computing
5 Comments
Recent Posts
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 231: Sara Bannerman on How Canadian Political Parties Maximize Voter Data Collection and Minimize Privacy Safeguards 
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 230: Aengus Bridgman on the 2025 Federal Election, Social Media Platforms, and Misinformation 
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 229: My Digital Access Day Keynote – Assessing the Canadian Digital Policy Record 
Queen’s University Trustees Reject Divestment Efforts Emphasizing the Importance of Institutional Neutrality 
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 228: Kumanan Wilson on Why Canadian Health Data Requires Stronger Privacy Protection in the Trump Era
The authors of that article seem to not be aware that Anti-Patriot Act legislation is already a reality (and has been for several years) in a couple of Canadian provinces. These laws that aim to protect data held by the provincial governments are having a ripple effect in the private sector. Several Canadian financial institutions that have in-sourced or switched providers for data services in order to protect their eligibility for certain types of dealings with the governments of B.C. and Nova-Scotia.
Living in a Society of Fear
Under the guise of fighting terrorism, the Patriot Act was adopted WITHOUT public approval or vote just weeks after the events of 9/11. Such an unconstitutional set of laws should be abolished seeing as they violate human rights and due process. A mere 3 criminal charges of terrorism a year attributed to this act, which is mainly used for no-knock raids leading to drug-related arrests without proper cause for search and seizure. The laws are simply a means to spy on our own citizens and to detain and torture dissidents without trial or a right to council. You can read much more about living in this Orwellian society of fear and see my visual response to these measures on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/09/living-in-society-of-fear-ten-years.html
How cloud computing is safe in term of privacy security ?
Oh no, the patriot act will expose my “data” to the US government!
Well I certainly don’t want the US government rifling through my “data”…which, as an average amounts to MP3’s and stored copies of pictures that I got FROM the internet anyway.
Could it be that people just aren’t embracing “cloud computing” because it’s not offering any real value for consumers? Compared to a 1TB hard drive at $300, $24.95 per month to have my data stored for me, plus the inconvenience of having to be connected to the “cloud” in the first place, wait times to access the data, unreliability of the servers the cloud is relying on…why would I put anything in “the cloud” to begin with? I get FREE cloud storage from Amazon and I still don’t, and never will, use it…and it has nothing to do with the patriot act. It’s simply an inferior storage option.
Here is an amazing article in the cloud computing blog disputing the the cloud computing privacy
How cloud computing is safe in term of privacy security ?
Here is an amazing article in the cloud computing blog :http://cloudswave.com/blog disputing the the cloud computing privacy
benefits of cloud computing
If you look at the benefits of cloud computing, you can sum up adding things like cost savings, elasticity, load bursting, scalability, storage on demand, etc. These can be called as the most usual and advertised benefits of cloud computing, which people in the solid business case for employing either the third party services or the virtualized data center. There are loads of things that keep on coming in this domain, which can help your business in some way or the other. It is therefore imperative to stay tuned with the same from good resources like http://www.onlinebackupmag.com, which cover cloud computing and other technological stuff in detail.