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This below is a very important development, and the <a
href="https://data.awp.is/data/filtrala/15/analisis.cleaned.pdf">analysis</a>
by Prof Kelsey and Dr Kilic is really really good. <br>
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The upshot in my view is; the global Internet would finally be
governed, has to be governed, like any other important social
system. The real question that we face, especially in the context of
these new revelations, is; whether<br>
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(1) the Internet should be governed as a 'trade system', and among a
few willing countries, which represent the most powerful countries
plus those who are willing to partake of the fruits of cooptation,
or <br>
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(2) it should be governed as a<i> unique new global infrastructure
of communication, information, and social organizing</i> (and thus
of many a social system, including trade) in venues that are open to
all countries of the world, more powerful or less, big or small. <br>
<br>
(Included in the above is the question whether the key value flow on
the Internet, data, is to be considered in a framework of its
multiferous enmeshment with many sectors of our society, or just as
a commodity for trade, with some minor 'exceptions' admitted here
and there.) <br>
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One would think that for a civil society group the above is a simple
choice to make. But unfortunately, most civil society actors in the
IG space have focussed on narrow specific issues missing this larger
framework, and thus missing the wood for the tree. Willy nilly, in
my view, it amounts to complicity with option 1 above .<br>
<br>
Kelsey and Kilc's analysis begins with a very pertinent listing of
US' objectives. While all three listed objectives are instructive, I
especially quote no 3<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 15pt"
size="4">"prevent or restrict government regulation that impedes
the activities and profits of the major global services
industries, and guarantees unrestricted cross-border data flows,
which impacts on consumer protections, privacy laws, regulatory
constraints and competition policy."</font></font><br>
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How effective the US strategy has been on this count is obvious...
It has kept the IG world embroiled in the multistakehoder versus
multilateral debate as it goes ahead building the global
architecture of IG and of the Internet through its secret agreements
like the TISA. When the pressure becomes too much, like post
Snowden, it throws a NTIA transition ball for kids to play with,
which is both the not most important global IG issues, and even in
its best possible outcome does not really change much. But quite
good to divert people' thinking and energy for a year or two. And if
one asks, but what about non-tech issues, it comes up with the WEF
based NetMundial Initiative, and gets enthusiastic civil society
backers - though anyone will ask the question, how the US push to
prevent public interest governance of the Internet for the sake of
protecting its big business interests (see the quote above) is
addressed by new forums where those very big business interests will
now direct participate in public policy development. But then...<br>
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parminder <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Wednesday 17 December 2014 09:17 PM,
Carolina Rossini wrote:<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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Immediate Release</span></u><span
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New Roman","serif"">Dec. 17,
2014<span style="color:black"></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Symone
Sanders <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="tel:%28202%29%20454-5108"
value="+12024545108" target="_blank">(202)
454-5108</a>, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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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="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"">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="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>
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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="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"">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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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"">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="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"">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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style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times
New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p
style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.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.</p>
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