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Cloud Computing: Privacy Concerns Too Much, says CIO


InformationWeek's John Foley, speaks with Carolyn Lawson, the Chief Information Officer for the California Public Utilities Commission. Lawson goes over some of her reactions after sitting in on the panel discussion at Enterprise 2.0's "Evening in the Cloud." Lawson is most concerned about protecting private data, especially from the standpoint of a government agency, where consumers provide information not because they want to, but because they have to (to file taxes, to get a driver's license, if they have communicable diseases, for public health information). So Lawson believes that government agencies have a higher level of concern and responsibility, and thus she is not in favor of moving that data into the cloud so readily. Indeed, she is simply not convinced the cloud services are ready. But she also lots of uses: the delivery of information without private informotion. She believes agencies should move as much information as they can into the cloud.