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

[randy <marchany () VT EDU>]

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.