Companies frequently face data breaches when employees lose laptops and disks, but sharing and storing company documents on third-party cloud services carry their own risks, including phishing attacks.

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While there are plenty of third-party apps that can handle Office documents, release of the official apps is likely to be of great interest to those who work a lot with Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents when out and about.

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But if the Dallas paper legally obtained documents stolen by a third party, precedent suggests it is the thief and not the newspaper who would be subject to prosecution, even if the newspaper should have known that the information was stolen.

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Third-party developers will be able to use Documents in the Cloud to add the same functionality to their own wares, and I hope that many of them will.

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Mike Edmondson, a spokesman for the state attorney in Palm Beach County, said it's often legal under Florida law for a doc to prescribe medication in a third party's name, if all parties are aware and the medic documents it correctly.

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The IT administrator can also provide ways, so the organization can share sensitive documents, without fear of it being copied or spread to a third party.

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For important business documents, is it prudent to outsource the responsibility of data backup and security to a third party?

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