The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) has released a report claiming that U.S. tech companies have lost $35 billion in sales as a result of "failure of U.S. policymakers to address surveillance concerns" after the release of the first Snowden documents in 2013.
ITIF recommends that policymakers:
* Increase transparency about U.S. surveillance activities both at home and abroad.
* Strengthen information security by opposing any government efforts to introduce backdoors in software or weaken encryption.
* Strengthen U.S. mutual legal assistance treaties (MLATs).
* Work to establish international legal standards for government access to data.
* Complete trade agreements like the Trans Pacific Partnership that ban digital protectionism, and pressure nations that seek to erect protectionist barriers to abandon those efforts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @08:52PM
No, the Trans Pacific Partnership isn't a treaty.
If it was, it wouldn't be in the House at all.
A treaty goes straight to the Senate and requires a 2/3 vote for approval.
By and large, it isn't about trade either.
Only 5 of the 29 chapters are about traditional trade. [google.com]
--Julian Assange in a recent interview with Democracy Now
-- gewg_