I've worked with schools that have dived in head first and never considered where or how their data is being stored, and also the opposite where a Network Manager is so averse to the word "Google" that he refuses to use anything that isn't stored locally.
I sit somewhere in the middle. Cloud services can be a brilliant tool, but they have to be used and managed sensibly.
A question I get asked a lot is how do you know if the service you're using is "safe" to use. Part of the answer -- although by no means all -- is whether or not the company providing the service adhere's to the EU-US Safe Harbor framework.
To find out more about the Safe Harbor framework, check out this article.
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