The way in which European cloud computing contracts are drawn up is to come under scrutiny by a team of experts.
On Friday the European Commission, the European Union's top law-making body, called for nominations for people from industry, academia and other interested groups to sit on the new expert group, which is being formed in order to create a transparent and comprehensible contract model.
According to Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes, users often don't understand the terms of their contract, what they're paying for and what they can expect. She said that people shouldn't need a law degree to know what they are signing up to.
"Small firms might hesitate to use the cloud because of fears that they will not meet their legal obligations, or worries that they might get locked in, Kroes said on her personal blog. "They don't want the risk of getting mired in foreign court cases in foreign languages; nor of exposing the data which may be their business's life blood to security risks or breaches. And they cannot afford costly legal fees to figure all this out case by case."
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