There are few drawbacks to prohibiting employees from using personal cloud accounts to store company-related information, and many dangers to allowing it, according to John Ella and Jillian Flower, attorneys with Jackson Lewis in Minneapolis.
Not everyone agrees, though; some see several downsides to having strict prohibitions, including the possible negative impact on morale.
A company might opt against a blanket ban on using personal cloud accounts for work, and instead ban certain employees from doing so, wrote Matthew Aibel, an attorney with Epstein Becker Green in New York City and Adam Forman, an attorney with Epstein Becker Green in Detroit and Chicago.
