The New York Times recently reported that cloud computing is not being adopted as quickly in Europe as in other parts of the world because of European Commission privacy laws that place rigid limits on the movement of information beyond the borders of the 27-country European Union. Industry lobbyists are working to loosen and streamline existing laws on international data transfer to permit the eventual creation of a comprehensive, workable, global privacy framework that is consistent, flexible, transparent and principles-based. Cloud Ventures, a Canadian consultancy incubating Canadian Cloud technology, is forwarding a technology company Esotera that has a technology which solves the data privacy concerns of European countries in a single sweep.

Tom Chalker, president of Esotera Secure Storage Solutions, explains: “We have created a distributed architecture of anonymous encrypted data blocks that changes the game. The issue of physical security within jurisdictional boundaries is replaced with the simpler concept of security by statistical probability. Legally, this is similar to regulations in the medical field. Laws exist because statistics prove that diseases can be more effectively controlled through widespread immunization rather than by simply isolating the carriers of disease.”

Cloud Ventures is endorsing this solution as part of their ‘Trusted Cloud’ R&D initiative. The Esotera solution uses the mathematics of cryptology to store blocks of data alongside millions of other indistinguishable blocks to present a modern ‘needle in the haystack’ problem for potential attackers. The data is protected by very large numbers. The attacker must make billions of billions of guesses to compromise any one file.

via Canadian Cloud Computing Solution Presents Viable Solution for European Commission Cloud Computing Log Jam.