Cookie cloudy, cooked Google: Be alert! Libraries in the cloud

Abstract

Libraries have to be care of the cloud computing shift. Cloud Computing is promoted as a free service. The free concept is irresistible to consumer’s choice. Mainly, it is Google’s strategy as well followed by Facebook, Yahoo, Apple, among others. Neverthe-less, at what cost is the Cloud free? Contents and privacy are the means for trading in the Cloud, which is promoted, as well, by public institutions just as a key-remedy to overcome the crisis. No matter if the remedy brings collateral damages, such the breach of privacy, copyright and competition laws, among other ones. Because such laws are old-fashioned, there is a lack of legislation and case law to rule cloud compu-ting. Libraries have to be awared of cloud computing: they have an important heritage to preserve. Not only the content, but also the privacy and values. If any heal has to be implemented, it cannot be by the go-vernments of each country, but it has to be through international legal solutions. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be the immediate forecast. Google is already certainly a huge, a huge “logos”, “god”, which knows every single detail of being digitally-exposed human.