Cloud Regulations to Protect User PrivacyThis essay discusses the regulations that govern the cloud provider to protect the data privacy of citizens within the country . This essay will describe what cloud services are and their wide range of services. In the second section, it will further explain the security threat of cloud services and dig deeper into privacy issues. In the next section, I will discuss the scope of the technical regulation proposed from a given case taking the model of the existing national regulation. In the fourth section, this essay will discuss evaluation and another policy as an alternative to the previous policy. Finally, this essay will be closed with suggestions and conclusions on the regulations to be adopted to protect the privacy of citizens' data stored in the cloud. What are cloud services? Today, cloud services are widely used by people around the world for business purposes. , government and personal use. With cloud services, users use resources - whether storage, computing capacity or software - from a cloud service provider over the Internet. Performing computing work with cloud services involves a number of computers to perform large-scale work, so it is usually called by Internet distributed system (reference, paper?). The cloud service also offers a large-scale service where users only pay for what they use (on-demand). Therefore, businesses are migrating to the business-to-business cloud because they do not have to spend money on increasing the upfront cost of their IT business. For example, instead of building their own storage, networking, and cooling, they could simply “rent” resources from a cloud provider at a lower cost. Besides financial benefits, cloud resources can also be shared across multiple...... middle of paper ...... wide range of services to society. For public cloud, customers have no idea where their data is stored and what regulations would be applied to their data. This may affect their privacy guarantee. The regulation that incentivizes cloud companies to store local citizens' data in the country could guarantee user data because the cloud company will have certain restrictions to process user data based on local law. But this regulation may result from the refusal of giant providers and local users risk losing their cloud services. Regulations that incentivize cloud companies to encrypt local user data may be an alternative, but this is limited on some cloud services. From the security assurance point of view, I can suggest the first regulation, which stores local users in the country, because it can cover the entire cloud services to ensure their privacy security..