What's in the clouds?

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services where shared resources, software and information are provided to computers typically over the internet.

Cloud computing raises a number of legal issues. The cloud model has been both criticised by privacy advocates for the greater ease in which the companies hosting the cloud services control, and can monitor the communication and data stored between the user and the host company, and praised for its ability to ensure records are kept up to date.

As cloud computing is achieving increased popularity, concerns are being voiced about the security issues introduced through adoption of this new model.

This conference will address commercial, privacy, security raised and other issues raised by the Cloud, particularly in the government context.