Cloud Challenges towards Free Flow of Data

The Free Flow of Data is an emerging challenge to which the European Commission is currently working on with a legislative proposal due for the end of 2016, as part of the Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy. The proposal aims at tackling unjustified “restrictions on the free movement of data” among Member States. This paper analyses a number of cloud challenges of trustworthy inter-cloud environments identified by on-going EU-funded research initiatives dealing with security, privacy and data protection issues of Cloud solutions.