[LINK] Geolocation of Au citizen data

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 2/10/2013 10:13 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> On 2/10/2013 10:37 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>> At 10:24 AM 2/10/2013, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>>> Some consumers might be interested in the potential impact of the
>>> Patriot Act on the data that Amazon holds on behalf of its business/org
>>> users.
>>>
>>> We all have complete trust in overseas governments, don't we?
>> Now *that* question was asked and he answered that it was ASIO in the
>> case of Australia, which can pretty much do what it wants. His
>> solution was to encrypt everything.
> Easy to say, harder to do. If we are talking about SQL databases rather
> than folders with documents then you would need to build the encryption
> into the data access layer.

Further to my previous rant, here's a piece from The Register written by 
our very own Richard Chirgwin:

Cloud is a key-management pain: NIST
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/02/cloud_is_a_keymanagement_pain_nist/

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brd

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