Privacy and security in the cloud are not the same thing

John Leonard
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'Companies claim they have world-class security and therefore privacy, but you can have world-class security and have no privacy whatsoever'

The new European data protection regulations mean that customers of cloud companies, and the cloud firms themselves, must increasingly focus on privacy as well as security. Traditionally, cloud fir...

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