European watchdogs unit to investigate public sector cloud use
 

Worried about privacy

European privacy watchdog is launching a joint investigation with 22 national regulators into the use of cloud-based services by the public sector to check if they comply with its privacy safeguards.

The investigations will cover over 80 public bodies across the European Economic Area, including EU institutions, covering sectors such as health, finance, tax, education and providers of IT services), The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) said.

At the nub of the issue is that a lot of public cloud use is based around US cloud computing companies such as Amazon's AWS, Google, Oracle and Microsoft's Azure. All of them have been flat out building centres across Europe in response to growing demand from private- and public-sector organisations. The main reason is to avoid shipping the data to the US where it can be snuffled up by US spooks.

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