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New research suggests Australians are keen on cloud services, but they expect to know when their data is stored overseas – and to be able to control whether or not it goes offshore.A poll conducted for the OzHub industry alliance suggests Australians have adopted cloud services in a big way but they don’t know when their data is stored overseas and they want to be able to control where it goes.“OzHub believes that cloud services have an exciting future and represent great value and opportunity for consumers, but the industry and Government need to ensure that they work together to both educate consumers and to understand and respond to their need,” said OzHub chairman Matt Healy. “Making sure people have the control and the rights that feel they are entitled to over their data is a corner stone of building trust.”The poll found more than 70% of Australians used social networking sites and email services, and one third used other services that stored personal information remotely. More than 80% of those users did not know where their data was being stored, and 70% would prefer that it was stored in Australia.
