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Cloud Computing
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Legal Ethics Forum
Sarah Jane Hughes, “Did the National Security Agency Destroy the Prospects For Confidentiality and Privilege When Lawyers Store Clients’ Files in the Cloud — And What, If Anything, Can Lawyers and Law Firms Realistically Do in Response?”
Article. Abstract: Since the first commentaries about the range and depth of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) metadata-gathering from telephone calls, emails, and other uses of the Internet in 2013,…
Technology Law Dispatch
ISO develops the first privacy-specific cloud standard
Earlier in 2014, the International Standards Organisation (ISO) developed a new voluntary standard, ISO 27018 (Standard), establishing commonly accepted control objectives and guidelines to protect personal information for a public…
Socially Aware Blog
Negotiating Cloud Contracts
By Alistair Maughan, Chris Ford, Scott W. Stevenson
The cloud computing market is evolving rapidly. New as a service (aaS) platforms are appearing and the dichotomy between public and private cloud domains has been fractured into many different…
GT TechVenture Views
ISO Issues Data Protection Standards for the Cloud
Written by Jonathan A. Beckham, with assistance from Audrey T. Borisov, Kedrick N. Eily, and Angela F. Ramson. In July 2014, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) published ISO 27018, which…
LawSites
CosmoLex Evolves from Time and Billing to Full Practice Management
Since its launch earlier this year as a cloud-based billing and trust accounting platform, CosmoLex has steadily added new features and capabilities, gradually moving towards becoming a full-fledged law practice management…
Focus on Regulation
Commerce Department Issues Guidance on Exports in the Cloud
By Brian Curran
The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) confirmed that simply accessing from abroad software subject to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) that is stored on a server in…
Technology's Legal Edge
What happens in the cloud stays in the cloud: BIS reinforces export control insulation for cloud-based computing and processing
Written by Thomas M. DeButts The US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently released a redacted Advisory Opinion dated November 13, 2014 that confirms for cloud-based…
Inside SALT
Three Strikes…Tax on Cloud Computing Out in Michigan?
By Stephen P. Kranz, Eric Carstens, McDermott Will & Emery
If the Department of Treasury (Treasury) was hoping that the Michigan courts would simply overlook the previous two cloud computing losses this year in Thomson Reuters (previously covered here) and…
Global Media and Communications Watch
Outsourcing, technology procurement and cloud in Asia – the legal and regulatory essentials
By Mark Parsons
New operating models – new challenges As businesses in Asia grow in scale and complexity, they are increasingly turning to outsourcing and large scale technology procurement, including the deployment of…
Government Contracts & Investigations Blog
Shopping for the Cloud Made Easy – GSA’s Special Item Number Project for Cloud Computing and Request for Comments
On November 18, 2014, the General Services Administration (“GSA”) hosted an Industry Day seeking feedback on its proposal to add a Cloud Computing Special Item Number (“SIN”) on its IT…