Q1Cloud Computing

Key ethical issues in cloud computing include: data privacy and confidentiality, since sensitive personal or business data is stored on infrastructure owned and physically controlled by a third-party provider rather than the data owner; ambiguity over data ownership and control, particularly regarding who may access, use, or even retain copies of data after a contract ends; lack of transparency in provider practices, since customers often cannot directly verify a provider's actual security, backup, or data-handling practices; and accountability, determining who bears responsibility (the cloud provider or the customer) when a data breach, service outage, or misuse of data occurs, an issue complicated further when data crosses international jurisdictional boundaries with differing privacy laws.