[bestbits] TRADE impacts on Net Neutrality
Maryant Fernández
maryant.fernandez-perez at edri.org
Wed Dec 17 11:48:48 EST 2014
The text was released by Associated Whistleblowing Press today:
https://data.awp.is/filtrala/2014/12/17/19.html
See also https://data.awp.is/data/filtrala/15/tisa.cleaned.pdf
Best,
Maryant
Le 17/12/2014 17:43, Carolina Rossini a écrit :
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>> <mailto: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
>> <mailto:tpp-allies at listserver.citizen.org>>
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>>
>> http://www.citizen.org/documents/press-release-net-neutrality-leak.pdf
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>>
>> _For Immediate Release_:
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>> _Contact_:
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>> Angela Bradbery (202) 588-7741 <tel:%28202%29%20588-7741>,
>> abradbery at citizen.org <mailto:abradbery at citizen.org>
>>
>> Dec. 17, 2014
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>>
>>
>>
>> Symone Sanders (202) 454-5108 <tel:%28202%29%20454-5108>,
>> ssanders at citizen.org <mailto:ssanders at citizen.org>
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>>
>> *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 /*
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
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>> Office: 202.454.5108 <tel:202.454.5108> | Cell: 402-671-8118
>> <tel:402-671-8118>
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>> Email: ssanders at citizen.org <mailto:ssanders at citizen.org>
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>> Website: www.tradewatch.org <http://www.tradewatch.org/>
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>> Twitter: @PCGTW, @ExposeTPP
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