Cloud computing contracts

Cloud computing services are ubiquitous: for small and large companies the phenomenon of cloud computing is nowadays a standard business practice. This work would compile an analysis about the contractual issues related to the different services provided by all IT services provider. There are faced not only legal topics strictly connected to the personal data protection because, as the thesis will show, there are several legal acts provided by European Union, Italy (and from all EU's member states) and data protection authorities (both nation and international) that discipline the entire data protection topic in the cloud computing era. The legislation over cloud computing contracts, on the contrary, is totally absent and only the contractual instrument can be used to point out and specify duties and obligations between the contractual cloud parties, but the problem to find the proper legal discipline is not easy to solve. This work analyze the state of the art and provide a possible solution in order to find the legal discipline of cloud computing contracts, especially using the theory of ''connected contracts''.