[governance] Cyber-Espionage and Trade Agreements: An Ill-Fitting and Dangerous Combination

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Yesterday's leak of a May 2014 draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
<https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp> (TPP) agreement revealed the addition
of new text criminalizing the misuse of trade secrets
<https://www.wikileaks.org/tpp-ip2/#article_h8> through "computer
systems", as mentioned in our previous post
<https://kittens.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/latest-tpp-leak-shows-us-still-pushing-terrible-drm-and-copyright-term-proposals>
about the leak. This is a significant revelation, because we also know
that trade secrets are planned for inclusion in the EU-US free trade
agreement
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/eu-us-trade-negotiations-continue-shutting-out-public-when-will-they-learn>,
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.

https://eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/cyber-espionage-and-trade-agreements-ill-fitting-and-dangerous-combination

-- 
Jeremy Malcolm
Senior Global Policy Analyst
Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://eff.org
jmalcolm at eff.org

Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161

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