Policy makers, businesses debate role of Washington in cloud computing Behind *Facebook*, *Gmail* and the *Bing* search engine is a multibillion-dollar shift in technology that users don't see and Washington doesn't quite know how to handle. That trend is called cloud computing: the hosting of data on remote servers that can be tapped from any computer connected to the Web. And the policy implications of cloud computing was the subject of debate last night at a roundtable dinner discussion at the Aspen Institute, hosted by *Microsoft*. Microsoft has emerged as a proponent of some rules of the road for the largely Wild West that cloud computing companies such as Google, Yahoo and Amazon operate. Yes, that's right -- the company wants more rules. Microsoft has called on Congress to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act to clearly apply to protections on the Web. And it wants stronger rules against cyber attacks by reforming the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Continua qui: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/03/what.html