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Legal Concerns and Challenges in Cloud Computing
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security (2014)
  • Sundar Krishnan, Sam Houston State University
  • Lei Chen, Georgia Southern University
Abstract
Legal issues have risen with the changing landscape of computing, especially when the service, data and infrastructure is not owned by the user. With the Cloud, the question arises as to who is in the “possession” of the data. The Cloud provider can be considered as a legal custodian, owner or possessor of the data thereby causing complexities in legal matters around trademark infringement, privacy of users and their data, abuse and security. By introducing Cloud design focusing on privacy, legal as a service on a Cloud and service provider accountability, users can expect the service providers to be accountable for privacy and data in addition to their regular SLAs.
Keywords
  • Terms of service (ToS),
  • Cloud,
  • Privacy,
  • Legal challenges of Cloud,
  • Laas (Leagal as a Service),
  • Risk,
  • Service level agreement SLA,
  • Privacy impact assessment (PIA),
  • Cloud service provider (CSP)
Publication Date
May 12, 2014
Editor
Peter Cooper and Murat Karabatak
ISBN
978-975-394-076-4
Citation Information
Sundar Krishnan and Lei Chen. "Legal Concerns and Challenges in Cloud Computing" Huntsville, TXProceedings of the International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security (2014) p. 81 - 85
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lei-chen/63/