Ask any data protection officer or privacy counsel what tops their list of trepidations and engaging global data services’ vendors will be up there. The combination of security threats and burdens, restrictions on international data transfers and data-hungry law enforcement authorities has turned delegating any data processing or storage operations to cloud service providers into an unnerving proposition. This is unfortunate given all the practical benefits and crucial role of cloud computing for the world’s economy and the information society. If we add to this the incessant scrutiny of Safe Harbor and the growing distrust surrounding technology giants which is part of the legacy of the post-Snowden era, things are not looking very rosy for the global guardians of our information. It needs not be this way.