Continued against the municipality to use cloud services

Continued against the municipality to use cloud services


June 10, 2013


The contract Salem municipality would subscribe to use Google's cloud service is not enough, says Information Commissioner.Either the shortcomings of the agreement addressed or municipality must stop using the cloud service.


2011 criticized the Data Inspection Salem municipality for its use of a cloud service from Google. The criticism concerned the lack of agreement meant that it did not comply with the rules of the Data Protection Act. The agreement gave Google too much space to process personal data for their own purposes. Moreover, did not the subcontractors who are involved and what happens to personal data when the contract ends.


Salem Municipality was requested to draw up a new agreement. Data Inspection Board has reviewed the new agreement, noting that the previous shortcomings persist.


- Therefore, we must once again submit to the municipality to either remedy the shortcomings of the agreement or to stop using the cloud service, says Ingela Alverfors, lawyer at the Swedish Data Inspection Board.


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