Law and Cloud Computing

Some countries, such as Uruguay, explicitly allow the cross-border transfer of personal data between or within a group of companies without additional authorisation in situations where the parent company, subsidiary, subsidiary or branch receiving the personal data has engaged in conduct duly registered with the competent data protection authority. If your company operates in multiple countries, you should study these types of requirements before putting electronic data in the cloud. The 2021 survey highlights the serious concern that while lawyers are talking about security issues related to cloud computing, they are unfortunately not following the path. Poor scores in the cybersecurity category should be a big problem for the legal profession. If you add just one thing from this TechReport to your tech agenda for 2021, it should be to improve your game on cloud security, for you and even more so for your customers. That`s right: cloud services for law firms aren`t a trend, it`s the future, and the future is here. Now that you`ve learned the pros and cons of servers and cloud computing, are you ready to make the switch? If so, download this free guide to getting your firm off the ground: “Moving Your Law Practice to the Cloud: How to Transition to Cloud-based Legal Software.” Of course, location-based servers have some advantages. With proper maintenance and proper training of your employees on cybersecurity risks and practices, your company`s servers can be secured. And using servers to store corporate data, as opposed to your computers` hard drives, is a more efficient and convenient way to store and manage your company`s case information.

However, in 2019, law firms have much better options than law firm servers, namely data storage in the cloud. “Cloud Computing Law is the most comprehensive book I`ve found on cloud law that is worth the award.” – Darren Grayson Chng, Law Gazette Speakers also touched on the pros and cons of cloud-based software (also known as SaaS). They pointed to low upfront costs and lack of hardware as some of the main benefits. Another benefit discussed was that cloud-based software can run on any operating system, so you`ll be up and running in no time, whether you`re using a Mac or PC. This is a huge advantage of cloud-based services for law firms. The minimum standards for SaaS providers should provide the protection law firms need to operate online without fear of violating current ethical standards. Standard-setting by SaaS providers, malpractice insurers, and bar associations can provide assurance that the cost of moving to a new platform will be minimized while realizing the benefits of cloud computing. W. Kim, “Cloud computing: today and tomorrow,” Journal of Object Technology, Vol. 8, No.

1, p. 65, 2009. This book explores in detail the legal implications of cloud computing. Essentially, “the cloud” is a way to provide computing resources as a utility service over the Internet. It is evolving very quickly with significant investments in infrastructure, platforms and applications, all delivered “as a service”. The demand for cloud resources is huge, driven by developments such as the large-scale deployment of mobile applications and the rapid emergence of “big data”. The book explains what cloud computing is and how it works. analyzes the contractual relationships between cloud service providers and their customers as well as the complex roles of intermediaries; and is exploring specific agreements for public sector cloud procurement and cloud data ownership issues. It also explores the protection of personal data in the cloud, governance challenges related to law enforcement access to data in the cloud, ways to facilitate competition between cloud service providers, and the impact of cloud computing on consumer protection. D. Coyle and D. Nguyen, “Cloud computing, cross-border data flows and new challenges for measurement in economics,” National Institute Economic Review, Volume 249, 2019.

Jaskaran Singh Saini, Dinesh Kumar Saini and Punit Gupta described the purpose of the work and the topics to be discussed in this work in the field of cloud computing. Chhattar Singh Lamba and G Madhusudhana Rao contributed to the Legal and International Issues section in the field of cloud computing. It is a contribution of each author and all authors discussed the work and contributed to the final manuscript. All authors confirm that they are solely responsible for study design, data collection, analysis and manuscript preparation. However, this is not even the biggest story. In 2021, the poor cybersecurity approaches taken by advocates when using cloud applications actually deteriorated and continue to be the main takeaways from the 2021 survey. It is difficult to balance the ethical duty of technological literacy with the overt behaviour of lawyers. Data Control Understanding who has access to your company`s data.

Make sure you know which categories of cloud provider employees are accessing your data and confirm if the provider is using subcontractors who might need access. In addition, implement a process that allows you to responsibly collect and process potentially reactive employee data when faced with litigation or investigation. This often involves preparing a consent form, documenting the legal justifications for requesting data, and hiring or consulting with external lawyers to better understand local authorities. In the legal profession, it is still a very different story. Legal is an industry lagging behind in the use of the cloud. Still, it`s still surprising that even in 2021, the reported use of cloud computing in legal practice stagnated or even declined — despite the pandemic and all the coverage of Zoom meetings and working from home. This result is difficult to understand, let alone explain. Gradually, companies are rapidly adopting the cloud-based system for their global reach and meeting the legal goals of the Digital India program.

Information, communication and technology (ICT) interventions pave the way for the delivery of goods and services by eliminating or limiting the role of intermediaries. It enables MSMEs operating in remote rural areas to market their products directly to consumers at a competitive price, thus facilitating a globalised presence of localised products [6]. Cloud adoption is a capital-intensive enterprise from the perspective of emerging MSMEs, such as startups or companies that break even in their business cycle. The excellence of Indian IT companies is widely recognized when it comes to providing competitive IT services to their customers, mainly based in the US and European countries. Due to economies of scale, India`s cost of data per gigabyte (GB) is among the lowest in the world, for example an average cost of $0.68 per GB of data [7]. Such conditions are conducive to the rapid adoption of cloud-based systems by MSMEs. Whereas MSMEs are overcoming technological and financial constraints with government support and management by several e-commerce giants [8]. Nevertheless, it would be immense legal complexities if cloud-based services were used all over the world. In the field of data economics, it is crucial to accurately determine the final ownership of user data in the context of the global feud between data protection laws and ICT laws. The legal challenges relate to a complex relationship with the jurisdictional issues for cloud data discussed in Section 7. Due to the lack of a standard legal framework for cloud servers, CSP often runs into a legal conundrum when complying with several national laws of the participant`s countries. There is a complex link between data protection laws and ICT laws from a national and international perspective.