I want to discuss the
implications of the use of cloud servers for data storage and transfer (e.g.
Dropbox), which we use routinely in the BioComposites Centre to distribute
files with industrial partners in project management. Early versions of
this concept often held within their terms and conditions that data uploaded to
the cloud servers became the property of the host servers themselves.
Apart from the importance of users of such software actually reading the terms
and conditions (who ever really does!), in what manner can any assurance of
confidentiality of cloud servers be “veillanced”? Similarly, the
University announced it had chosen to use Microsoft Outlook cloud server for
all email applications and calendaring – this being prior to the Snowden
disclosures but despite those disclosures, the system was duly taken up.
Are there safeguards in place?
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