EU to legislate on cloud security
The European Union plans to introduce new data protection laws in November designed to ensure cloud providers are offering a safe service.
The Binding Safe Processor Rules (BSPR) will ask cloud service providers working in the EU to agree to be legally liable for any data breaches or losses that occur at their data centres, lawyers said yesterday.
It will effectively act as an accreditation scheme for cloud providers, meaning it will require suppliers to sign up to the initiative. It comes after a sweeping review of Europe's data protection laws. Eduardo Ustaran, partner at Field Fisher Waterhouse, said service providers were certain to sign up as it would give them a much-needed selling point. If they didn’t, they would be viewed as unsafe.
