: The issue of how to provide appropriate privacy protection for cloud computing is important, and as yet unresolved. In this paper we propose an approach in which procedural and technical solutions are codesigned to demonstrate accountability as a path forward to resolving jurisdictional privacy and security risks within the cloud. Internal Posting Date: August 6, 2009 [Fulltext] Approved for External Publication Internal Posting Date: August 6, 2009 [Fulltext] To be appeared in Proc. CloudCom 2009, Beijing, Springer LNCS, December 2009. © Copyright Springer LNCS 2009.