By all accounts, cloud computing is the future. The market will grow at five times the rate of traditional IT products, IDC has predicted, estimating it will be worth US$55.5 billion by 2014. While the future should be rosy, some policy groups are warning that without proper protections, the sector could stumble hard. The problem is a law — the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) — that hasn’t been updated to reflect new technological realities.
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