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posted by janrinok on Friday June 12 2015, @04:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the they-would-say-that-wouldn't-they? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @08:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @08:52PM (#195531)

    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_