{"id":142468,"date":"2010-01-05T17:10:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T22:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"tag:business.theatlantic.com,2010:\/\/3.32995"},"modified":"2010-01-05T16:50:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T21:50:39","slug":"what-does-the-ftc-want-with-cloud-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/142468","title":{"rendered":"What Does The FTC Want With Cloud Computing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Federal Trade Commission must not be very busy these days. I say that because of its decision to look into cloud computing. Apparently, it’s worried about the security and privacy implications of storing data remotely. I find this a bizarre target of inquiry.<\/p>\n

ReadWrite Enterprise considers<\/a> the FTC’s investigation, saying: <\/p>\n

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In the filing, The FTC recognizes the cost savings of cloud computing but has concerns about information being stored remotely:<\/p>\n

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“However, the storage of data on remote computers may also raise privacy and security concerns for consumers,” wrote David Vladeck, who helms the FTC’s Consumer Protection Bureau. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This statement is puzzling. People have been storing their data remotely since the early 1990s on services that predate the social networks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s exactly what I was thinking. Data has been stored on computers remotely for many years. Moreover, how is remote data storage much more dangerous than on-site data storage? Firms have long had networks that hackers could attempt to break into for quite some time. If hackers attempt to access a cloud computing database, how is that any different from if they just broke into a company’s or individual’s network directly instead? <\/p>\n

I’m sure there’s a lot of valuable work that the FTC could be doing. This isn’t it. Let’s hope it just amounts to a waste of time and doesn’t prevent any technological innovation that cloud computing could bring.<\/p>\n



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The Federal Trade Commission must not be very busy these days. I say that because of its decision to look into cloud computing. Apparently, it’s worried about the security and privacy implications of storing data remotely. I find this a bizarre target of inquiry. ReadWrite Enterprise considers the FTC’s investigation, saying: In the filing, The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}