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 Sunday June 07 2015, @12:21AM
In a sense transferring effective power to corporations is a throwback to the aristocratic era.
This as corporations can be likened to the holdings of aristocrats (stockholders), that has left them in the hands of caretakers (executives).