<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> The text itself is here: </span><a href="https://data.awp.is/data/filtrala/15/tisa.cleaned.pdf" style="color: purple; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">https://data.awp.is/data/filtrala/15/tisa.cleaned.pdf</a><br>
<br>I have a few thoughts on this - I regularly talk to the negotiators of TISA, as I have done for a few years now when it was just an idea in a few countries' negotiators minds.<div><br></div><div><div>With respect to the offer having no specific exception for data privacy: you should know that the parties have said that there will be a GATS-like exception for that horizontally, meaning, across the entire agreement. I am verifiably informed that this will not be sufficient for some of the negotiating parties - including major economies. In other words there is going to be more robust privacy protections in TISA than in previous trade agreements as I am reliably informed without it a deal that includes coverage for electronic trade will not gain agreement.</div><div><br></div><div>I am surprised and disappointed that the national security exception didn't get more attention. This is an extremely broad exception, and what you all probably don't know is that, like privacy, there will be a GATS-like national security exception across the entire agreement. That means that this exception is, quite literally, for the Internet and it is broader than GATS' exception as the legal analysis mentioned.</div><div><br></div><div>I can tell you that a number of parties to the TISA talks - of all sizes of economy - have said that the national security exception makes all the obligations on the Internet voluntary because it is so broad. This, it seems to me, is a terrible signal to send to the many countries engaging in crackdowns on the Internet. Some of the other parties to TISA are Turkey and Pakistan. Aside from anything else, these are not countries that have a good record about the open Internet. Some of the most significant censorship moves that Turkey has made in 2014 happened near the time when they received the offer from the US in TISA. Perhaps this is a coincidence, but I have to wonder. </div><div><br></div><div>While I understand the concern that a number of you will have about the text, if you look at it through a human rights lens, ensuring the free flow of data is a very positive thing - and local hosting obligations are used right now by repressive governments to ensure that content is accessible to it for censorship purposes - and to spy more capably on their own people. As far as privacy goes, you have to ask yourself if you really want it to be easy for personal data to be held in any country. Most countries have a pretty poor record of protecting privacy. Wouldn't you want data to be held where it is most likely to be kept securely? Isn't ensuring that countries can compete to host data based upon robust privacy protections a desirable objective?</div><div><br></div><div>I know that there are strong views on trade agreements, but I have to tell you, as a front-row witness to the terrible climate on Internet policy in Geneva, trade is one of the few bright spots where there are countries insisting on strong privacy protections and I know the negotiators do feel the weight of history on them not to enable censorship or other such practices through their work. That's why I was so disappointed to see the US sending such a terrible signal to the world in proposing an extremely broad national security exception.</div><div><br></div><div><div>On 17 Dec 2014, at 17:43, Carolina Rossini <<a href="mailto:carolina.rossini@gmail.com">carolina.rossini@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">coming later today it seems, but the language is mentioned in the briefing</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Nick Ashton-Hart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nashton@consensus.pro" target="_blank">nashton@consensus.pro</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Thanks, Carolina, but where is the leaked text itself?<br>
<br><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On 17 Dec 2014, at 16:47, Carolina Rossini <<a href="mailto:carolina.rossini@gmail.com" target="_blank">carolina.rossini@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">press release from PC (our dear Burcu) and also a briefing distributed today by other groups going deeper on the issues<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Melinda St. Louis</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mstlouis@citizen.org" target="_blank">mstlouis@citizen.org</a>></span><br>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>To: tpp-allies <<a href="mailto:tpp-allies@listserver.citizen.org" target="_blank">tpp-allies@listserver.citizen.org</a>><br><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""><u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-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 <u><u></u><u></u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" 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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></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.”<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" 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.”<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><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.
<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" 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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><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 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.<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:105%"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:105%">
###<u></u><u></u></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Symone D. Sanders <u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Communications Officer | Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">215 Pennsylvania Ave SE, Washington, DC 20003<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Office: <a href="tel:202.454.5108" value="+12024545108" target="_blank">202.454.5108</a> | Cell: <a href="tel:402-671-8118" value="+14026718118" target="_blank">402-671-8118</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Email: <a href="mailto:ssanders@citizen.org" target="_blank">ssanders@citizen.org</a>
<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Website: <a href="http://www.tradewatch.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">www.tradewatch.org</span></a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Twitter: @PCGTW, @ExposeTPP<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
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