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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @04:20PM
But creeping rights assigned to corporations, the right to free speech
If corporations didn't have the right to free speech, their websites (for instance) could be shut down at will, and we'd be in a new era of censorship. I really don't think that you should lose free speech rights just by working in a group.