Cloud service contracts are still too complex for many businesses to grasp the potential risks and liabilities, Businesses are buying into cloud services without fully understanding what they're paying for and what they can expect from the service. "One of the big barriers to using cloud computing is a lack of trust. I think you should be able to know what you're getting and what it means — and it should be easy to ensure that the terms in your contract are reasonable: open, transparent, safe and fair. Even if you don’t have a law degree," "Sensible, plain language contracts" be designed to spell out clear service level agreements and what a businesses' rights are on a range of issues, such as which third parties would be able to access a businesses' information or whether a firm will be notified in the event of data being stolen. Drawing up model contracts for cloud services is a "key pillar" of the Cloud Computing strategy ....