Privacy and Legal Issues in Cloud Computing

BOOK REVIEW

PRIVACY AND LEGAL ISSUES IN CLOUD COMPUTING

Edited by Anne S Y Cheung and Rolf H Weber

Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Elgar Law, Technology and Society

ISBN: 978 1 78347 706 7 (book)
978 1 78347 707 4 (eBook)

This book is available electronically in the Elgaronline
Law subject collection
DOI 10 4337/9781783477074

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COMPULSORY FOR ALL WEB USERS TO READ AS THEY TAKE A NEW WALK IN THE CLOUDS

An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers

Professors Cheung and Weber examine, with a team of contributors, what they term ‘emerging and innovative attempts’ to tackle privacy and the developing legal issues in cloud computing including such issues of the moment as personal data privacy, intellectual property protection and security.

The importance of this subject today cannot be underestimated because, as Michael A Geist from the University of Ottawa explains, “cloud computing provides the foundation for the myriad of network services that millions of internet users rely upon every day.”

The editors point out that the cloud allows us to access our documents, photos and video files from anywhere in the world (and actually space!). The book from Edward Elgar is part of the Elgar Law, Technology and Society series and is an edited volume with fifteen contributors. Its origins lie in the academic conference “Up in the Cloud: Legal and Privacy Challenges in Cloud Computing” which was held by the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong in July 2013.

Academic lawyers are extremely lucky to have this new work on the complex legal and privacy challenges which have been brought about by the rapidly evolving cloud computing technology. To most of us it is a relatively new area of study and will be welcomed by a wide range of readers who are taking a new walk in the clouds.

The law is as stated in 2015.