This open access book brings together perspectives from multiple disciplines including psychology, law, IS, and computer science on data privacy and trust in the cloud. Cloud technology has fueled rapid, dramatic technological change, enabling a level of connectivity that has never been seen before in human history. However, this brave new world comes with problems. Several high-profile cases over the last few years have demonstrated cloud computing's uneasy relationship with data security and trust.

               

This volume explores the numerous technological, process and regulatory solutions presented in academic literature as mechanisms for building trust in the cloud, including GDPR in Europe. The massive acceleration of digital adoption resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic is introducing new and significant security and privacy threats and concerns. Against this backdrop, this book provides a timely reference and organising framework for considering how we will assure privacy and build trust in such a hyper-connected digitally dependent world.

               

This book presents a framework for assurance and accountability in the cloud and reviews the literature on trust, data privacy and protection, and ethics in cloud computing.

Chapter 1: Understanding Trust and Cloud Computing: An Integrated Framework for Assurance and Accountability in the Cloud

Chapter 2: Dear Cloud, I think we have trust issues: Cloud Computing Contracts and Trust
Chapter 3: Competing Jurisdictions - Data Privacy Across the Border
Chapter 4: Understanding and Enhancing Consumer Privacy Perceptions in the Cloud
Chapter 5: Justice vs Control in Cloud Computing: A Conceptual Framework for Positioning a Cloud Service Provider's Privacy Orientation
Chapter 6: Ethics and Cloud Computing
Chapter 7: Trustworthy Cloud Computing.