"Legislation is an impediment" to the UK government's G-Cloud initiative, say officials from Lockheed Martin, the largest provider of cloud services to the U.S. government. In the UK and Europe, data privacy laws prevent the movement of data outside the jurisdiction, Computing reports, which is "the antithesis of cloud computing's concept." For the cloud to succeed, privacy and confidentiality legislation will need to change, the report states. "Governments should all be updating their laws if they aren't already," said Melvin Greer, chief strategist for Lockheed Martin, adding that the UK government and the G-Cloud initiative "will have to deal with the concept of having a secure infrastructure..."
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