> And who's going to provide the politicians a better way of doing it? Not only does IT lead by example in blind trust of the cloud, but they only sell their se

> And who's going to provide the politicians a better way of doing it? Not only does IT lead by example in blind trust of the cloud, but they only sell their services that way also. This is where smaller and more specialized providers can gain ground, and in some areas has done so. When the large providers focus on price and ignoring the law, smaller providers can compete with a better (but more expensive) product. The biggest hurdle for a positive change is that in many situations, IT companies that ignore the law can often gain more by paying fines and splitting the cost among multiple won contracts, than smaller companies that follow the law. There is a similar problem in procurement where a large company can have a strategy to agree to anything in order to win all contracts, then relying on their lawyers to limit the fallout when they eventually fail to deliver. Systematic abusing the legal system should simply lead to increased fines.