Re: Cloud vendor contracts starting to say they own the data you put in their cloud

[Carrie Shumaker <shumakr () UMICH EDU>]

+1 to Rori. We look for this in every contract and ensure WE OWN THE DATA.

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 1:07 PM randy <marchany () vt edu> wrote:

> The subject line  says it all.
>
> We're starting to see clauses in vendor cloud contracts where they are
> stating that they will own any data that we store in their cloud. Basically
> this sounds like cloud vendors are starting to adopt the social media
> sites' approach of "gimme, gimme, gimme, it's mine".  Needless to say, this
> is disturbing in so many ways.
>
> Has anyone else run into this?
>
> -Randy Marchany
> VA Tech IT Security Office and Lab.


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