Abstract (eng)
As the technological revolution evolves rapidly, cloud computing is becoming a component of everyone’s daily life. This is explained by an unprecedented proliferation of data on ‘the cloud’. Processing data and utilizing storage platforms is easily accessible both at low cost and high efficiency. Yet, whilst cloud computing provide with a unique convenience, it has also led to unseen challenges especially on the field of data protection. This paper analyses the most relevant legal issues when engaging cloud services, by taking the General Data Pro-tection Regulation and the different policy guidelines provided by the EU institutions into consideration, as well as the Spanish public administration in recent years.