I couldn't agree more David.

So many people preach about the need for a smaller and less involved 
government in one breath but, in another, they beg for it.  The 
symbiotic nature between public demand for justice, increased litigation 
and legislation simply cannot be denied and, in my opinion, this arena 
will continue to be a perfect example of just that.  27 states now have 
their own laws regarding breach of data, whether it's simply PII or 
PHI.  There are several federal laws that apply to varying context such 
as FACTA, GLBA, SOX, HIPAA/HITECH, etc.  Those laws are all in place due 
to public outcry against some injustice (real or immortalized by scandal 
and media).

I have been prepping my clients and advising prospects for almost 3 
years now that the increasing spotlight on records, data management, 
hacks and privacy related breaches not only serve to sweeten the pot for 
the criminals but for the general public as they become more and more 
aware of their protections or rights under the law and the penalties 
associated with them.

All in all, it won't be any different from the last dozen or so emerging 
technology market concepts.  Launch, pain, learn, pain, learn some more, 
pain, learn to deal with the pain until something else comes 
along......mostly tongue in cheek.  Seriously, I hope the efforts to 
stem the mad rush into the public cloud continue so that the pain and 
evolution can be kept at a manageable pace rather than coming out of the 
gates and directly into a catastrophic failure.

Ken Fontana
President
Fontana Insurance Solutions
/~Integrity and Honesty Are Not Out of Style........They Are My Calling
Cards~/




On 5/11/2010 10:17 AM, David Gaynon wrote:
> In thinking about this I would anticipate that how this information is managed by service providers is likely to become subject to increasing levels of government regulation.  Consider a few results from the University of California study that I originally referenced.
>
> When asked  if there should be a law that gives people the right to know everything that a service provider may have collected about them -- 68% answered in the affirmative.
>
> And when asked if there should be a records retention law  that requires websites and advertising companies to delete all stored information about an individual -- 92% answered Yes.  Consider how many substantive public policy issues we have that one could find an agreement at>90%. There are few such issues.  I am not sure I could think of any such ones.  Of course this may be a case of minor annoyance versus major concern.  But I think not.
>
> David B. Gaynon
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> This is a really interesting conversation, and it makes me wonder about all the hidden metadata that will be stored on the "cloud."
> While all those clouds may be siloed, the owners or service providers (or specifically their machines) will conceivably have access to all the data.  So if Amazon provides cloud services for the government, they will have lots of extraneous info too.  And Microsoft seems to have interesting ideas for the future as well.
> http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/video-microsoft-attempts-to-predict-the-future/
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> If they store all this data on the cloud as efficiently as possible, how will we know that the records or digital assets (or their
> metadata) haven't been compressed or encrypted or compromised in some way before it's too late?
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> David Kay, MLS
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