Another day, another crucial leak of information relating to a relentless drive by the USA to have control of as much data as they can, in as many countries as possible, regardless of public interest and to improve profits for itself. They are coming for your data and they want it for free.
Edit: Jane Kelsey has analysed a leak from TISA. Her conclusions:
The US is demanding that New Zealand and other countries accept sweeping rules that would override privacy protections for digitised personal and other data’, according to Professor Jane Kelsey from the University of Auckland.
Obligations to allow cross-border movement and storage of data, and other rules that undermine net neutrality and prohibit requirements that service suppliers site their servers within the country are in a leaked US proposal to the ongoing negotiations for a Trade in Services Agreement.
TISA is another mega-agreement being negotiated in secret among 23 parties including the US, New Zealand and the EU, who call themselves the ‘Really Good Friends of Services’. This leak follows an earlier leak of the financial services chapter, which also showed far-reaching new constraints on governments’ ability to regulate services in the public interest.
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