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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: 2, Interesting) by dingus on Saturday June 06 2015, @10:24PM

    by dingus (5224) on Saturday June 06 2015, @10:24PM (#193022)

    I've heard of supreme court cases of the EU(and EU member states) cracking down on data-mining companies. Why are they suddenly dioing a 360?

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