Cloud Computing, Social Media Websites and your Personal Data, the on going issues with privacy

ITKE — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:46:25 +0000

Online Data security still remains the most critical issue for businesses and individuals. There are still no clear cut regulations on the issues of data ownership, who owns the data that is stored? What happens to the data if online storage providers go out of business? Who will be responsible for the stored data?

Without Cloud Computing, Social Media Websites and various online services, much of the Internet as we know it today won’t be possible. But we can’t stop thinking of data security just as we can’t stop thinking about our physical security in our home and cities.

As someone put it “at some point, you just have to surrender control.”

Can you take your Twitter flowers with you after you leave your company?

ITKE — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:55:03 +0000

An interesting story about ex-employer suing a man for taking Twitters flowers with him after he left the company. The man was a blogger for the company and he developed the list while working for this company, now who owns the list? The blogger with his skills and style developed a list of followers, but he did that by promoting the company’s product, so who owns the list now? Will future employment contracts list “employers ‘social media sites accounts” as an Intellectual property?

This will be a whole new legal practice field.

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Cloud Computing, Social Media Websites and your Personal Data, the on going issues with privacy

Can you take your Twitter flowers with you after you leave your company?