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    The text was released by Associated Whistleblowing Press today:
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://data.awp.is/filtrala/2014/12/17/19.html">https://data.awp.is/filtrala/2014/12/17/19.html</a><br>
    See also <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://data.awp.is/data/filtrala/15/tisa.cleaned.pdf">https://data.awp.is/data/filtrala/15/tisa.cleaned.pdf</a><br>
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    Best,<br>
    <br>
    Maryant<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 17/12/2014 17:43, Carolina Rossini a
      écrit :<br>
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cite="mid:CAK-FJAdgUYZwnQ2NknsomWPa8gVAuxgj=+b2boO+BSrRcytcGQ@mail.gmail.com"
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      <div dir="ltr">coming later today it seems, but the language is
        mentioned in the briefing</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Nick
          Ashton-Hart <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:nashton@consensus.pro" target="_blank">nashton@consensus.pro</a>></span>
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            <div style="word-wrap:break-word">Thanks, Carolina, but
              where is the leaked text itself?<br>
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                    <div>On 17 Dec 2014, at 16:47, Carolina Rossini <<a
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                      <div dir="ltr">press release from PC (our dear
                        Burcu) and also a briefing distributed today by
                        other groups going deeper on the issues
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                          <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded
                            message ----------<br>
                            From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Melinda
                              St. Louis</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a
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                            Date: Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:36 AM<br>
                            Subject: [tpp-allies] PC Press Release:
                            Obama "trade" text leak: net neutrality,
                            data privacy implicated<br>
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                                  <b><span
                                      style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times
                                      New Roman","serif"">Leak
                                      of Obama Administration Trade Pact
                                      Proposal Reveals Negotiations
                                      Affecting Net Neutrality, Limits
                                      on Data Privacy Protections</span></b><i><span
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                                      New Roman","serif""></span></i></p>
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                                  align="center"><b><i><span
                                        style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times
                                        New
                                        Roman","serif"">U.S.
                                        Internet Governance Policy
                                        Should not be Designed in
                                        Closed-Door, Industry-Influenced
                                        Negotiations of U.S. Trade in
                                        Services Agreement </span></i></b></p>
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                                  style="line-height:105%"><span
                                    style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times
                                    New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
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                                  style="line-height:105%"><span
                                    style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times
                                    New Roman","serif"">WASHINGTON,
                                    D.C. – While a domestic debate about
                                    net neutrality rages and public
                                    demands for better data privacy
                                    protections grow, a U.S. trade pact
                                    proposal leaked today reveals that
                                    issues related to both policies are
                                    being negotiated in closed-door
                                    trade talks to which corporate trade
                                    advisors have special access, said
                                    Public Citizen.</span></p>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="line-height:105%"><span
                                    style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times
                                    New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="line-height:105%"><span
                                    style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times
                                    New Roman","serif"">The
                                    leaked text is the U.S. proposal for
                                    language relating to e-commerce and
                                    Internet issues in a proposed<b>
                                    </b>Trade in Services Agreement
                                    (TISA), which is now being
                                    negotiated between a 50-country
                                    subset of  World Trade Organization
                                    members. The pact would require
                                    signatory countries to ensure
                                    conformity of their laws,
                                    regulations and administrative
                                    procedures with the provisions of
                                    the TISA; failure to do so could
                                    subject a country to trade
                                    sanctions. Negotiators are pushing
                                    to complete and implement the pact
                                    next year.</span></p>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"
                                  style="line-height:105%"><span
                                    style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times
                                    New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
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                                  style="line-height:105%"><span
                                    style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times
                                    New Roman","serif"">“This
                                    leak reveals a dangerous trend where
                                    policies unrelated to trade are
                                    being diplomatically legislated
                                    through closed-door international
                                    ‘trade’ negotiations to which
                                    industry interests have privileged
                                    access while the public and policy
                                    experts promoting consumer interests
                                    are shut out,” said Lori Wallach,
                                    director of Public Citizen’s Global
                                    Trade Watch. “Given the raging
                                    domestic debate over net neutrality,
                                    the growing demands for more data
                                    privacy and the constantly changing
                                    technology, a pact negotiated in
                                    secret that is not subject to
                                    changes absent consensus of all
                                    signatories seems like a very bad
                                    place to be setting U.S. Internet
                                    governance policies.”</span></p>
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                                  style="line-height:105%"><span
                                    style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times
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                                  style="line-height:105%"><span
                                    style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times
                                    New Roman","serif"">Added
                                    Burcu Kilic, a lawyer with Public
                                    Citizen, “The Internet belongs to
                                    its users. Anyone who cares about an
                                    open and free Internet should be
                                    concerned that U.S. trade
                                    negotiators are seeking to lock in
                                    international rules about how the
                                    Internet functions, and are doing so
                                    in a closed-door process that is not
                                    subject to the input of  Internet
                                    users. Negotiating rules
                                    internationally, behind closed
                                    doors, while the domestic discussion
                                    is ongoing not only makes an end-run
                                    around the domestic process, but
                                    excludes the perspectives and
                                    expertise needed to make good
                                    policy.”</span></p>
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                                    New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
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                                  style="line-height:105%"><span
                                    style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times
                                    New Roman","serif"">With
                                    respect to privacy protections, the
                                    leaked text reveals that the U.S.
                                    negotiators are pushing for new
                                    corporate rights for unrestricted
                                    cross-border data flows and
                                    prohibitions on requirements to hold
                                    and process data locally, thus
                                    removing governments’ ability to
                                    ensure that private and sensitive
                                    personal data is stored and
                                    processed only in jurisdictions that
                                    ensure privacy.
                                  </span></p>
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                                  style="line-height:105%"><span
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                                  style="line-height:105%"><span
                                    style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times
                                    New Roman","serif"">Such
                                    measures are considered critical to
                                    ensuring that medical, financial and
                                    other data provided protection by
                                    U.S. law are not made public when
                                    sent offshore for processing and
                                    storage, with no legal recourse for
                                    affected individuals. Numerous U.S.
                                    organizations are pushing for
                                    improvements in such policies, which
                                    are considerably stronger in other
                                    countries. If the proposed TISA
                                    terms on free data movement were to
                                    become binding on the United States,
                                    such needed progress would be
                                    foreclosed.</span></p>
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                                <div style="margin:0in 0in
                                  0.0001pt;line-height:105%">For a more
                                  detailed analysis of the leaked text
                                  and its implications for net
                                  neutrality and data privacy, please
                                  see
                                  <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                    href="https://data.awp.is/filtrala/2014/12/17/19.html"
                                    target="_blank">this memo</a>
                                  co-written by Professor Jane Kelsey,
                                  University of Auckland School of Law,
                                  and Kilic of Public Citizen.</div>
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