Cloud Computing and National Security Law

Jack Goldsmith
Monday, October 4, 2010, 8:08 AM
That is the title of a new report by the National Security Research Group, a student student-run organization at Harvard Law School devoted to analyzing concrete national security legal problems in ways that might be useful to national security practitioners.  The NSRG’s cloud computing study has an admirably clear description of what cloud computing is; the best analysis available of the wide range of legal problems it

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That is the title of a new report by the National Security Research Group, a student student-run organization at Harvard Law School devoted to analyzing concrete national security legal problems in ways that might be useful to national security practitioners.  The NSRG’s cloud computing study has an admirably clear description of what cloud computing is; the best analysis available of the wide range of legal problems it raises (including the applicability of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to the cloud, various statutory search and seizure issues, and the use of cloud information in court); and recommendations for legal reform.  If you have comments on the cloud computing report or suggestions for future projects, the NSRG team can be reached at nsrg.hls@gmail.com.

Jack Goldsmith is the Learned Hand Professor at Harvard Law School, co-founder of Lawfare, and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Before coming to Harvard, Professor Goldsmith served as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel from 2003-2004, and Special Counsel to the Department of Defense from 2002-2003.

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