Cookie cloudy, cooked google: ¡Al loro, bibliotecas en la nube!

Abstract

Libraries have to be care of the cloud computing shift. Cloud Computing is promoted as a free service. The free concept is irresistible to consumer's choice. Mainly, it is Google's strategy as well followed by Facebook, Yahoo, Apple, among others. Nevertheless, at what cost is the Cloud free? Contents and privacy are the means for trading in the Cloud, which is promoted, as well, by public institutions just as a key-remedy to overcome the crisis. No matter if the remedy brings collateral damages, such the breach of privacy, copyright and competition laws, among other ones. Because such laws are old-fashioned, there is a lack of legislation and case law to rule cloud computing. Libraries have to be awared of cloud computing: they have an important heritage to preserve. Not only the content, but also the privacy and values. If any heal has to be implemented, it cannot be by the governments of each country, but it has to be through international legal solutions. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be the immediate forecast. Google is already certainly a huge, a huge "logos", "god", which knows every single detail of being digitally-exposed human.