In the Internet world Cloud computing is the next development stage which will provide the services that are required for everything from computational power to computational infrastructure, business processes, applications to personal collaboration can be delivered to you whenever and wherever you want. Privacy protection techniques only focusing on controlling the cloud environment, that's why research is needed in the area of accountability and auditing. This paper represents a framework for

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... distributed accountability and auditing which is used to protect user's data as well as monitor the actual usage of data provided through cloud services. In order to control the usage of data distributed auditing mechanism is followed and information of the user is collected simultaneously.