“One of the more common rebuffs a privacy professional will get when raising data privacy concerns in a commercial deal is, ‘no one else has ever raised this as a material concern,’ which is often followed with a request to be ‘commercial’ because ‘no one walks away from a deal because of data privacy,’” writes Eversheds Global Head of Privacy & Information Law Paula Barrett. In particular, such concerns are often raised, and affect, cloud computing deals. As a result, Eversheds conducted a benchmarking survey, revealing that cloud deals often do fail because of data privacy concerns. In this post for Privacy Perspectives, Barrett discusses the survey and shares some of the major takeaways from the report.
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