{"id":3494,"date":"2013-01-25T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2013-01-25T07:00:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T15:00:48","slug":"cloud-computing-opposition-mounts-to-take-it-or-leave-it-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-opposition-mounts-to-take-it-or-leave-it-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Opposition Mounts to 'Take-it-or-Leave-it' Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The use of Cloud Computing is growing quickly. \u00a0In fact, the Information Services Group<\/a>, an IT consultancy, finds that the number<\/a> of global IT cloud computing service deals have tripled since 2010.<\/p>\n

But many worry about the details of the contracts that are being signed for cloud computing services. \u00a0The Cloud Industry Forum found that, of the cloud computing contracts<\/a> that are being signed, only 52 percent of them involved negotiations. \u00a0The remainder of deals are based on standard ‘click-through’ contracts.<\/p>\n

Barry Murphy<\/a>, an analyst at Boston-based eDJ Group,\u00a0told ComputerWorld<\/a> that\u00a0“People don’t think about the legal issues because this is so new. There’s no prescriptive case law, so there’s a lot of trepidation among lawyers anxious to both protect the company’s data and remain on the correct side of government regulation.”<\/p>\n

ComputerWorld <\/a>quotes\u00a0Tanya Forsheit<\/a>, a founding partner of InfoLawGroup,\u00a0\u00a0said that “The cloud providers try to convey a take-it-or-leave-it attitude for their contracts, expecting people to click through the ‘I accept’ options the way people click through the iTunes website.”<\/p>\n

Christopher Millard<\/a>, in an\u00a0interview with Computer Weekly<\/a>,\u00a0professor of privacy and information law, said many clauses for cloud computing services are so extreme they would be unenforceable in UK law. \u00a0“We have found attempts, usually by American cloud suppliers, to not only deny that they have any liability for any damage that might be caused, but sometimes they even try to shift liability to the customer.”<\/p>\n

The European Commission distributed in a written communication<\/a> an opinion saying that\u00a0“The use of ‘take-it-or-leave-it’ standard contracts might be cost-saving for the provider but is often undesirable for the user, including the final consumer. Such contracts may also impose the choice of applicable law or inhibit data recovery.\u00a0Even larger companies have little negotiation power and contracts often do not provide for liability for data integrity, confidentiality or service continuity.”<\/p>\n

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The use of Cloud Computing is growing quickly. \u00a0In fact, the Information Services Group, an IT consultancy, finds that the number of global IT cloud computing service deals have tripled since 2010. But many worry about the details of the…<\/span><\/p>\n

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