Regulating the Cloud: Policy for Computing Infrastructure (Information Policy)

Christopher S. Yoo, Jean-Francois Blanchette (Editor), Joe Weinman, Marjory Blumenthal, William Lehr, Andrea Renda, Jonathan Cave, Neil Robinson, Svitlana Kobzar, Jean-François Blanchette (Editor), Helen Rebecca Schindler, Luciana Duranti, Lothar Determann, David Nimmer, and Nicholas Bauch

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The emergence of cloud computing marks the moment when computing has become, materially and symbolically, infrastructure -- a sociotechnical system that is ubiquitous, essential, and foundational. Increasingly integral to the operation of other critical infrastructures, such as transportation, energy, and finance, it functions, in effect, as a meta-infrastructure. As such, the cloud raises a variety of policy and governance issues, among them market regulation, fairness, access, reliability, privacy, national security, and copyright. In this book, experts from a range of disciplines offer their perspectives on these and other concerns.

The contributors consider such topics as the economic implications of the cloud's shifting of computing resources from ownership to rental; the capacity of regulation to promote reliability while preserving innovation; the applicability of contract theory to enforce service guarantees; the differing approaches to privacy taken by United States and the European Union in the post-Snowden era; the delocalization or geographic dispersal of the archive; and the cloud-based virtual representations of our body in electronic health data.

ContributorsNicholas Bauch, Jean-Francois Blanchette, Marjory Blumenthal, Sandra Braman, Jonathan Cave, Lothar Determann, Luciana Duranti, Svitlana Kobzar, William Lehr, David Nimmer, Andrea Renda, Neil Robinson, Helen Rebecca Schindler, Joe Weinman, Christopher S. Yoo
  • ISBN10 0262331152
  • ISBN13 9780262331159
  • Publish Date 21 August 2015 (first published 7 August 2015)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher MIT Press Ltd
  • Imprint MIT Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 328
  • Language English