McDonel, Grant A Policy Solution for Protecting PII on the RU Cloud. 2023. Radford University, Honors College Capstone Project. Radford University Scholars' Repository.
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Abstract
The current environment surrounding the protections of cloud users whose personally identifiable information (PII) is compromised is inconsistent and unclear. Cloud service providers create safe harbor policies that exempt them from liability and damages from legal proceedings relating to an infringement (Yaxi & Li, 2019), while lawmakers attempt to stop this business practice and hold companies accountable for data security using legislation such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (Copyright Alliance, 2022). On a smaller scale, individuals whose PII has been compromised are not guaranteed to succeed in legal claims against a businesses with safe harbor policies. Thus, smaller institutions such as universities and others that may have a private third party managing their cloud computing environment must take on the responsibility to write unique policies protecting those who use their services. Since the number of people who store personal data in the cloud continues to grow, it should be a top priority to give more rights and protections to the service user, rather than the service provider, to ensure proper compensation for losses related to PII being exposed in the event of a data breach.
| Item Type: | Honors College Capstone Project |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | personally identifiable information policy pii radford university safe harbor ferpa dmca |
| Subjects: | K Law > K Law (General) T Technology > T Technology (General) |
| Divisions: | Radford University > College of Science and Technology > School of Computing and Information Sciences Radford University > Honors College |
| Date Deposited: | 17 May 2023 00:48 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Dec 2023 13:47 |
| URI: | http://wagner.radford.edu/id/eprint/980 |
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