The NSA will now have access to everything without needing to ask for it.
Who's Edward Snowden? Capita bungs its email into Microsoft's cloud
Capita will shunt thousands of employees' email into Microsoft's Office 365 cloud - except those handling sensitive government and financial work. Some 20,000 staff will migrate from on-premises systems to servers provided by the American giant "by the end of this year", Capita told The Channel. A spokeswoman for outsourcing …
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Thursday 15th August 2013 10:06 GMT Anonymous Coward
So Capita has embraced the cloud. Their lawyers have looked at the service and agreed it meets the regulations for their business. Except for FCA regulated business.
Perhaps this should be looked at as free legal advice by anyone else considering putting FCA regulated data in the cloud (you know who you are!!!)
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Thursday 15th August 2013 10:40 GMT seanf
So Capita staff will have two email accounts?
Quote ""The current plans exclude [Financial Conduct Authority] FCA regulated and government businesses which will continue to use on-premises email services".
So Capita staff will use different email accounts when working on different projects? Hmmm - so this is either clunky or utter bullshit.
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Thursday 15th August 2013 11:10 GMT Anonymous Coward
It doesnt matter where they host it
Microsoft is a US company subject to the patriot act so any data it processes anywhere in the world is fair game to the US government.
Capita has effectively just handed over its entire email archive bar a few contracts to the NSA, and as its Office 365 all those lovely documents and excel spreadsheets are up for grabs as well.
Of course the US government will never use that data for anything untoward, its only for the wars on stuff......
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Thursday 15th August 2013 14:08 GMT Anonymous Coward
Separation
It is very easy for one business unit in Capita to remain separated from another if one is in scope for the move while another isn't. Contrary to popular opinion it is not one monolithic company but rather a group of specialist companies which share common goals. The IT services arm, for example, is a supplier to the IT dept of the resourcing arm which may also be a supplier back to the IT wing.
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Thursday 15th August 2013 14:40 GMT Anonymous Coward
Hosted "entirely within the EU ..
'The Office 365 service will be hosted "entirely within the EU", we're told, and "complies with all current data protection regulations", according to the integrator`.
Does that mean that GCHQ won't be hoovering up the data and passing it onto the NSA, in America?
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Friday 16th August 2013 05:43 GMT Anonymous Coward
WTF?
Seriously, do the people who make these decisions have an education?
Do they read the news? do they investigate themselves?
I hope they FULLY inform UK businesses they deal with who they use for email and their liabilities/risks... I know I would never recommend a US cloud provider to a UK/EU business for ANY sensitive data (sensitive means any personal data).
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Monday 19th August 2013 09:24 GMT Anonymous Coward
Good bloody luck
I work for one of the Capita Financial divisions. We did a pilot of this piece of crap for 6 months. It was fracking useless, an email used to take around 53 minutes to be delivered after sending, and that was to other internal users. Some things you couldn't do unless you ran Outlook, other things you couldn't do unless you used the Web Client. It's a shambles. I'm just glad we're exempted from going down that route!