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Ars Technica writes about WikiLeaks' release of 17 secret documents from the negotiations of the global Trade in Services Agreement (TISA). If their interpretation is correct,
the EU would be forbidden from requiring that US companies like Google or Facebook keep the personal data of European citizens within the EU
and
Article 6 of the leaked text seems to ban any country from using free software mandates: "No Party may require the transfer of, or access to, source code of software owned by a person of another Party, as a condition of providing services related to such software in its territory."
What more nasty surprises will these negotiations bring?
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @05:45AM
Oh looky here, a rebel against the corporations. Lucky for you SoylentNews is a corporation too! That's it, complain about the evil corporations on your favorite corporate news site. Idiot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @06:25AM
SoylentNews are the GOOD GUYS. Trust your Soylent, it's people!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @06:40AM
Big Brother is a big old meanie. You can trust Little Brother. Little Brother won't ever grow up to become Big Brother.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday June 06 2015, @09:46AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @10:12AM
I prefer talking to myself because I have more interesting things to say to me than you ever could.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @10:20AM
Zow! The ping time inside my head is so low!
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday June 06 2015, @12:13PM
You shouldn't trust yourself. Have you noticed that you've set up perfect surveillance on yourself? You can even read your thoughts!
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Sunday June 07 2015, @12:33AM
Don't be silly -- you know what I mean. Joe's Yard Service Inc. has no more sway with the government than an 8th grader does. BP? Microsoft? GE? Monsanto? That's a different story.
(Score: 2) by dry on Monday June 08 2015, @05:16AM
Actually there are cases where Joe's Yard Services does sway the local government to pass by-laws about lawns being needed to be kept short and if after a notice the government will send a private contractor (short list including Joe's) to cut it and bill you.
Businesses allying with government happens on every scale of government.