[bestbits] TRADE impacts on Net Neutrality

Wed Dec 17 11:43:52 EST 2014

coming later today it seems, but the language is mentioned in the briefing

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton at consensus.pro>
wrote:
>
> Thanks, Carolina, but where is the leaked text itself?
>
> On 17 Dec 2014, at 16:47, Carolina Rossini <carolina.rossini at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> press release from PC (our dear Burcu) and also a briefing distributed
> today by other groups going deeper on the issues
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Melinda St. Louis <mstlouis at citizen.org>
> Date: Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:36 AM
> Subject: [tpp-allies] PC Press Release: Obama "trade" text leak: net
> neutrality, data privacy implicated
> To: tpp-allies <tpp-allies at listserver.citizen.org>
>
>
>
> http://www.citizen.org/documents/press-release-net-neutrality-leak.pdf
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>
>
> *For Immediate Release*:
>
> *Contact*:
>
> Angela Bradbery (202) 588-7741, abradbery at citizen.org
>
> Dec. 17, 2014
>
>  Symone Sanders (202) 454-5108, ssanders at citizen.org
>
>
>
> *Leak of Obama Administration Trade Pact Proposal Reveals Negotiations
> Affecting Net Neutrality, Limits on Data Privacy Protections*
>
> *U.S. Internet Governance Policy Should not be Designed in Closed-Door,
> Industry-Influenced Negotiations of U.S. Trade in Services Agreement *
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>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> The leaked text is the U.S. proposal for language relating to e-commerce
> and Internet issues in a proposed 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.
>
>
>
> “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.”
>
>
>
> 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.”
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> For a more detailed analysis of the leaked text and its implications for
> net neutrality and data privacy, please see this memo
> <https://data.awp.is/filtrala/2014/12/17/19.html> co-written by Professor
> Jane Kelsey, University of Auckland School of Law, and Kilic of Public
> Citizen.
>
> ###
>
>
>
> *Symone D. Sanders *
>
> *Communications Officer | Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch*
>
> 215 Pennsylvania Ave SE, Washington, DC 20003
>
> Office: 202.454.5108 | Cell: 402-671-8118
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> Email:  ssanders at citizen.org
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> Website: www.tradewatch.org
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> Twitter: @PCGTW, @ExposeTPP
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