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The text was released by Associated Whistleblowing Press today:
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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>
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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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<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
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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 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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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
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman","serif""></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:center"
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"">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>
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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>
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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>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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
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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<p class="MsoNormal"
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
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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