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TISA, TTIP's evil brother

Accepted submission by TGV at 2015-06-03 20:23:44
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TGV [soylentnews.org] writes:

Ars Technica [arstechnica.com] writes about WikiLeaks' release of 17 secret documents from the negotiations of the global Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) [wikileaks.org]. 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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