Data Localization Laws and Policy

Download or read book Data Localization Laws and Policy written by W. Kuan Hon and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countries are increasingly introducing data localization laws, threatening digital globalization and inhibiting cloud computing adoption despite its acknowledged benefits. This multi-disciplinary book analyzes the EU restriction (including the Privacy Shield and General Data Protection Regulation) through a cloud computing lens, covering historical objectives and practical problems, showing why the focus should move from physical data location to effective jurisdiction over those controlling access to intelligible data, and control of access to data through security.