Foreign clouds in the European sky: how US laws affect the privacy of Europeans

This article presents a general analysis of how user autonomy in the cloud is increasingly put into jeopardy by the growing comfort and efficiency of the user-interface. Although this issue has not been, thus far, explicitly addressed by the law, it is a fundamental ethical question that should be c...

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Main Author:	Primavera De Filippi
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society 2013-03-01
Series:	Internet Policy Review
Online Access:	https://policyreview.info/node/113

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spelling	doaj-1ea09b0373e94cfca78f6504e853c78c2020-11-25T01:37:04ZengAlexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and SocietyInternet Policy Review2197-67752013-03-01Volume 2Issue 110.14763/2013.1.113Foreign clouds in the European sky: how US laws affect the privacy of EuropeansPrimavera De Filippi0Harvard UniversityThis article presents a general analysis of how user autonomy in the cloud is increasingly put into jeopardy by the growing comfort and efficiency of the user-interface. Although this issue has not been, thus far, explicitly addressed by the law, it is a fundamental ethical question that should be carefully assessed to guide the future deployment of cloud computing. Different policy decisions might, in fact, significantly affect user’s fundamental rights and online freedoms by shifting the balance from one part or another of the trade-off. This article aims to explore emerging trends in cloud computing technologies and analyse them from an ethical perspective to identify the issues they might raise, and the extent to which current laws and regulations actually take these issues into account.https://policyreview.info/node/113
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title_short	Foreign clouds in the European sky: how US laws affect the privacy of Europeans
title_full	Foreign clouds in the European sky: how US laws affect the privacy of Europeans
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description	This article presents a general analysis of how user autonomy in the cloud is increasingly put into jeopardy by the growing comfort and efficiency of the user-interface. Although this issue has not been, thus far, explicitly addressed by the law, it is a fundamental ethical question that should be carefully assessed to guide the future deployment of cloud computing. Different policy decisions might, in fact, significantly affect user’s fundamental rights and online freedoms by shifting the balance from one part or another of the trade-off. This article aims to explore emerging trends in cloud computing technologies and analyse them from an ethical perspective to identify the issues they might raise, and the extent to which current laws and regulations actually take these issues into account.
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Foreign clouds in the European sky: how US laws affect the privacy of Europeans

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