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[Issue] Location of data [Comments] 
Some vendor form contracts expressly reserve the right to store customer data in any country in which they do business. Others may not address the issue, but the vendors may follow similar practices nevertheless, on the (generally legitimate) theory that what is not expressly prohibited is thereby permitted. While dispersed geographical storage is beneficial from a data protection and backup perspective, it can raise export control (EAR/ITAR) issues in the context of research data. If that is important to you, you should be sure to include language prohibiting "extraterritorial" storage.
IT: Legal and Quasi-Legal Issues in Cloud Computing Contracts
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