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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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(Score: 1) by bitrotRnotbitrot on Saturday June 06 2015, @03:44PM
It will fall back to nation states as soon as shit hits the fan (and it will). For instance, us Euros are not going to accept the current available texts, there is way too much to lose and people are already extremely wary of overreach from abroad. People in the more nationalist countries will be the first to kick off, and they will be aiming their ire at their own governments, not some corporation or grouping of corporations. They receive their power through the government, if the government burns then so too does the agreements that were pushed through behind closed doors outside the purview of the people and democratic process.
Shit will hit the fan first ofc.