Upcoming Free Webinar - Contracting for Cloud Computing

This is a guest post from Richard Santalesa of InformationLawGroup.

Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 – 12:30 pm EST  (One hour)

In the next installment in our webinar series on cloud computing, Information Law Group attorneys, Richard Santalesa and David Navetta will examine legal issues posed by contracting for cloud computing services and review a proposed cloud user’s "Bill of Rights" that any company considering cloud computing should keep in mind given their specific goals, industry, data and security needs.

Deciding whether to take the plunge into cloud computing is a serious decision.  The real benefits of cloud computing must always be weighed against: the risk of relinquishing direct control of infrastructure and applications, the potential use of unknown subcontractors, implications of data flow and storage location, liability and indemnification issues, privacy and data breach notification considerations, and compliance with the overlapping web of federal, state, local and international laws and regulations.

You can register for this free one hour webinar here.

Hogan Lovells Lawyers Presenting at IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington

This is a guest post from Christopher Wolf of Hogan Lovells, via their blog, Chronicle of Data Protection.

US Capitol building

This week marks the annual gathering of more than 1500 privacy professionals in Washington, D.C. for the International Association of Privacy Professionals Global Privacy Summit.  Attorneys from the Hogan Lovells Privacy and Information Management Practice are presenting in a number of sessions, a reflection of the breadth of our practice and experience. 

Here is the calendar of the Hogan Lovells appearances:

Wednesday, March 9, 8AM to Noon  -- Security Breach 101: Mark Paulding

Wednesday, March 9, 8AM to Noon --  Managing Data Breach Challenges and Constituencies after HITECH: Chris Zaetta

Wednesday, Marcy 9, 1 PM to 5 PM  -- Pie in the Sky: The Intersection of Cloud Computing and Privacy Law Issues: Zenas Choi

Thursday, March 10, 10 to 11 AM --  Privacy Issues in Consumer and Patient Online Health Products and Systems: Melissa Bianchi

Thursday, March 10, 1:45 to 2:45 PM --  NAFTA Privacy: Chris Wolf

Friday, March 11, 10:30 to 11:30 AM --  Privacy v. Anti-Piracy: Chris Wolf

Friday, March 11, 10:30 to 11:30 AM -- Navigating Financial Privacy Compliance in a PostDodd-Frank World: Elizabeth Khalil

For those attending the IAPP Summit, please stop by the Hogan Lovells booth in the exhibition hall to meet lawyers from the group and to receive a cookie -- the fortune kind not the tracking kind.