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TISA, TTIP's Evil Brother

posted by takyon on Saturday June 06 2015, @04:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the and-another-thing dept.

TGV writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @03:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @03:44PM (#192914)

    they are another transfer of certain state powers to private business and are pushing us toward a future where the largest planet-wide businesses might also be the government.

    And that's a good thing, right? After all, gubbermint is nothing less than the embodiment of true evil and private business can do no wrong, thats why we privatize everything. This just takes the privatization and turns it up to 11.