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CLOUD SECURITY ALLIANCE RELEASES FIRST GUIDELINES FOR CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDERS DELIVERING SERVICES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
CSA Privacy Level Working Group Encourages Adoption Worldwide as a Powerful Self-regulatory Tool for Data Protection Transparency and accountability in the Cloud
RSA CONFERENCE – San Francisco, CA – February 25, 2013 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Privacy Level Agreement (PLA) Working Group today released the Privacy Level Agreement (PLA) Outline for Cloud Service Providers providing services in the European Union. The Outline provides a structure for Cloud Service Providers (CSP) to disclose, in a consistent matter, information about the privacy and data protection policies, procedures and practices used when processing personal data that customers upload or store in the CSP’s servers. Once a PLA outline is completed by a CSP, it will provide current and potential customers with a new tool to assess that CSP’s disclosure of its practices.
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