Cloud Governance - 20% Assignment

For the 'Information Technology Law' class, I have chose the option of writing a 2,000 word essay on :
"Cloudy with a chance of regulation: the governance of cloud computing" , Due in October, 2013.

I need to delineate the topic and cover 1 subtopic in detail with much examples. 

Cloud Computing Governance:

• Cloud Architecture: Applications Code, Hardware Infrastructure, and Security Layer
• Service Model: Licensing models, Legitimacy of licensing models, SLAs, SLM
• Compliance: Policy Management, Risk Assessment, Compliance Resource Management

upon conducting a skimming overview of a few related articles, the following appear to be relevant:

1. Data Privacy Issues
2. Data Control, Custody, and Possession definitions
3. Export Control Issues
4. Compliance Issues and Penalty

I will be addressing these 3 legal perspective in the EU, UK, and Canada and US context.

• Expound on definitions of each, administering bodies (state and non-state)
• Highlight specific precedent examples
• Surface contending laws and legislation based on jurisdictional interpretation.
• Introduce other relevant areas: Compliance, SLM, Organizational governance and framework development