589Security in Big Data and Cloud Computing
However, when the suspect stores the les in a cloud, many complications
occur. For example, since the suspect does not have any les stored locally, seiz-
ing and imaging his drives do not yield any evidence. The law enforcement agents
can raid the cloud provider and seize the disks from there. However, that brings
on more complications—since a cloud is a shared resource, many other unrelated
people would have their data stored in those drives. Thus, seizure or imaging of
such drives will compromise the privacy and availability of many users of the
cloud.
The cloud service providers can provide access to all data belonging to a client
on request from law enforcement. However, the defense attorneys ...