Balancing Privacy with Legitimate Surveillance and Lawful Data Access

The modern business world has overseen a massive expansion in global technological capacity. This expansion has allowed us to take great strides in electronic commerce and international communication. There are downsides, however. The new technologies have opened up a vast array of avenues for criminal activity. The new technologies also carry with them intrusive capabilities, and these, too, will require policies and laws that hold accountable those who abuse them. Legislators and policymakers the world over must remain abreast of current developments, being constantly mindful of the difficulties that will challenge any society that keenly embraces new technological capacity without putting in place appropriate regulatory mechanisms and legal regimes. The following overview reviews these themes in the context of cloud technology.