Introduction to Cloud Computing

Introduction to Cloud Computing 

When you store your photosonline instead of on your home computer, or use 

webmail or a social networking site, you are using a “cloud computing” service. If 

you are an organization, and you want touse, for example, an online invoicing 

service instead of updating the in-house one you have been using for many years, 

that online invoicing service is a “cloud computing” service. 

Cloud computing refers to the 

delivery of computing resources over 

the Internet. Instead of keeping data 

on your own hard drive or updating 

applications for your needs, you use a 

service over the Internet, at another 

location, to store your information or 

use its applications. Doing so may 

give rise to certain privacy 

implications. 

For that reason the Office of the 

Privacy Commissioner of Canada 

(OPC) has prepared some responses 

to Frequently Asked Questions 

(FAQs). We have also developed a 

Fact Sheet that provides detailed 

information on cloud computing and 

the privacy challenges it presents.

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