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

[Paul Wilson]

Thanks Jeremy.

The link to your earlier post is password protected, but I gather it should be:

  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/latest-tpp-leak-shows-us-still-pushing-terrible-drm-and-copyright-term-proposals




On 18 Oct 2014, at 6:24 am, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:

> Yesterday's leak of a May 2014 draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement revealed the addition of new text criminalizing the misuse of trade secrets through "computer systems", as mentioned in our previous post 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, 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
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