When the cloud is located outside of Israel, questions arise regarding the authority to transfer such data outside the country’s borders. The Privacy Protection Regulations (Transfer of Personal Information to Databases Outside the State Borders), 5761-2001 set out conditions for transferring data abroad; for example, the party the data is transferred to must undertake to comply with the conditions for data retention and use applying to a database located in Israel (section 2 (4) of the Regulations).