<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Thanks Jeremy. I will analyze this from a Pacific perspective and raise it with appropriate institutions in the Pacific.</div><div><br></div><div>Very useful information, thank you.<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Oct 18, 2014, at 8:24 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <<a href="mailto:jmalcolm@eff.org">jmalcolm@eff.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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Yesterday's leak of a May 2014 draft of the <a href="https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp">Trans-Pacific Partnership</a>
(TPP) agreement revealed the addition of new text criminalizing the
misuse of <a href="https://www.wikileaks.org/tpp-ip2/#article_h8">trade
secrets</a> through "computer systems", as mentioned in our <a href="https://kittens.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/latest-tpp-leak-shows-us-still-pushing-terrible-drm-and-copyright-term-proposals">previous
post</a> about the leak. This is a significant revelation, because
we also know that <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/eu-us-trade-negotiations-continue-shutting-out-public-when-will-they-learn">trade
secrets are planned for inclusion in the EU-US free trade
agreement</a>, TTIP (the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment
Partnership). The revelation of the proposed text in the TPP
provides a good indication that the same kind of language will
likely also appear in TTIP. Frighteningly, this text contains no
protections to safeguard the public interest.<br>
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Jeremy Malcolm
Senior Global Policy Analyst
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161
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