A report commissioned by the European Parliament suggests the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor Framework does not protect against U.S. interception of European citizen data processed in the cloud and “urges the European Union to encourage development of local cloud computing capacity based on open source software as a way of safeguarding against U.S. intelligence community surveillance,” Fierce Government IT reports. Meanwhile, a SafeGov.org report “shows broad support for safeguarding especially vulnerable cloud user populations in public organizations, such as schoolchildren, civil servants and healthcare professionals and their patients, who are at risk of being tracked and profiled for online advertising purposes.” A U.S. lobbying group is proposing a code of conduct to prohibit “user profiling and data mining by cloud services used by European schools.”
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