Regulating the cloud : policy for computing infrastructure / edited by Christopher S. Yoo and Jean-François Blanchette.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yoo, Christopher S., editor.

Blanchette, Jean-François, editor.

Series:

Information policy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Telecommunication policy.

Cloud computing--Government policy.

Cloud computing.

Cloud computing--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

Government policy.

Physical Description:

xi, 316 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]

Summary:

The emergence of cloud computing marks the moment when computing has become, materially and symbolically, - sociotechnical system that is ubiquitous, essential, and foundational. Increasingly integral to the operation of other critical infrastructures, such as transportation, energy, and finance, it functions, in effect, as a meta-infrastructure. As such, the cloud raises a variety of policy and governance issues, among them market regulation, fairness, access, reliability, privacy, national security, and copyright. In this book, experts from a range of disciplines offer their perspectives on these and other concerns. The contributors consider such topics as the economic implications of the cloud's shifting of computing resources from ownership to rental; the capacity of regulation to promote reliability while preserving innovation; the applicability of contract theory to enforce service guarantees; the differing approaches to privacy taken by the United States and the European Union in the post-Snowden era; the delocalization or geographic dispersal of the archive; and the cloud based virtual representations of our bodies in electronic health data. Book jacket.

Contents:

Cloud strategy and economics / Joe Weinman

Finding security in the clouds / Marjory Blumenthal

Reliability and the Internet cloud / William Lehr

Cloud computing, contractibility, and network architecture / Christopher S. Yoo

Cloud privacy in the United States and the European Union / Andrea Renda

Understanding regulatory and consumer interest in the cloud / Jonathan Cave, Neil Robinsonn, Svitlana Kobzar, and Helen Rebecca Schindler

Digital records and archives in the commercial cloud

Software copyright in the cloud / Lothar Determann and David Nimmer

Bodies in the cloud : a geography of electronic health data / Nicholas Bauch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262029407

0262029405

9780262527835

0262527839

OCLC:

906798073