It’s time for employers with trade secrets to get their heads—or trade secrets—out of the cloud. “When a trade secret owner stores a trade secret in the cloud, and effectively ‘discloses’ the information to the cloud service provider, has secrecy been lost?” It’s a question recently taken up by Jessica Gutierrez Alm of Duets Blog.
Since a trade secret is, by definition under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, a secret that is valuable because it is unknown and is subject to reasonable efforts to maintain its secrecy, storing it on a remote server could jeopardize this.
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