The growth of cloud computing has led to a corresponding growth of user data stored on third party servers, while, at the same time, U.S. privacy law has significant limitations in the protection of aggregated data—precisely the type of much of cloud computing data. This position paper provides an overview of cloud computing and current privacy law, policies and practices, presenting ideas for modernizing privacy protection for cloud computing users, with the goal of instilling trust in the use of cloud computing and fostering further development of innovations in cloud computing applications.
Online privacy notices are intended to promote consumer choice and reduce the risks of disclosing personal information online. However, these effects result only if consumers read and use the information contained in the notices. This study used an online survey of 2,468 U.S. adult Internet users to investigate why online consumers read privacy notices across a variety of situations. We found that reading is related to concern for privacy, positive perceptions about notice comprehension, and higher levels of trust in the notice. This suggests that effective privacy notices serve an important function in addressing risk issues related to e-commerce. We further found that reading privacy notices is only one element in an overall strategy consumers use to manage the risks of disclosing personal information online.
Berzelius failed to make use of Faraday's electrochemical laws in his laborious determination of equivalent weights.