Re:EU Parliament adopts resolution to set standards for clou...
by tehwalrus on Thursday December 19, 2013 @10:54AM
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Giving cloud hosts the status of Data Controllers
This is a bold move, and much more significant than some attempt at standardisation that probably won't work.
It will make it more expensive to hire a VM, probably, and I wonder if there will indeed be any benefit (given that cloud providers will have to start vetting and inspecting the source code on the VMs people are running - potentially taking away all the benefits of programmatic instance deployment.)
This is a bold move, and much more significant than some attempt at standardisation that probably won't work.
It will make it more expensive to hire a VM, probably, and I wonder if there will indeed be any benefit (given that cloud providers will have to start vetting and inspecting the source code on the VMs people are running - potentially taking away all the benefits of programmatic instance deployment.)