Although most attention has been given to the Trans-Pacific Partnership
agreement (TPP) and the Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA),
also known as TTIP, it's important to remember that a third set of
global trade negotiations are underway -- those for the Trade in
Services Agreement (TISA),
which involves more countries than either of the other two.
Like TPP and TAFTA/TTIP, TISA is being negotiated in strict secrecy, but earlier this year the financial services annex leaked, giving us the first glimpse of the kind of bad ideas that were being worked on. Now, another leak has surfaced, which reveals the US's proposals to free up data flows online.
For the European Union, that's a hugely sensitive issue. Under data protection laws there, personal data cannot be sent outside the EU unless companies sign up to the self-certification scheme known as the Safe Harbor framework. However, in the wake of Snowden's revelations about NSA spying in Europe, the European Parliament has called for the Safe Harbor scheme to be
Read more: New TISA Leak: US On Collision Course With EU Over Global Data Flows | Techdirt
Like TPP and TAFTA/TTIP, TISA is being negotiated in strict secrecy, but earlier this year the financial services annex leaked, giving us the first glimpse of the kind of bad ideas that were being worked on. Now, another leak has surfaced, which reveals the US's proposals to free up data flows online.
For the European Union, that's a hugely sensitive issue. Under data protection laws there, personal data cannot be sent outside the EU unless companies sign up to the self-certification scheme known as the Safe Harbor framework. However, in the wake of Snowden's revelations about NSA spying in Europe, the European Parliament has called for the Safe Harbor scheme to be
Read more: New TISA Leak: US On Collision Course With EU Over Global Data Flows | Techdirt
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