Protecting confidentiality in Cloud data processing: Europe's Keyser Söze strategy
Event details
| Date | 10.06.2013 |
| Hour | 16:30 › 17:30 |
| Speaker | Caspar Bowden, independent advocate for information self-determination rights |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
"Strong economic incentives to adopt the Cloud processing paradigm presents obvious risks to the confidentiality of data exposed to foreign jurisdictions. Homomorphic encryption seems unlikely to be practical and current 'trusted computing' technology is designed against consumer-grade adversaries. European policymakers have been proposing frameworks for legal certification which would permit unlimited export of personal data, subject to a commercial security audit of the Cloud platform against external threats. However there appears to be a dissonance between regulator expectations that foreign 'requests' for data will be discrete and follow due process, and evidence from whistle-blowers that apparatus for continuous mass-surveillance is already systematically deployed. Moreover the small-print of these frameworks appears to have been crafted to turn a blind-eye to secret 'national security' access to data, even though relevant foreign laws do not comply with European human rights standards, for example by discriminating by nationality and allowing purely political purposes unrelated to criminality. This talk will describe the recent policy history, from the Safe Harbour Agreement to current controversies over the new draft EU Data Protection Regulation."
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Organizer
- SuRI 2013
Contact
- Simone Muller