Saturday 7 November 2015

Asia trade deal impacts cybersecurity, telecoms and open Internet policy

The final draft of the long-awaited Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, a sprawling text of 30 chapters and over 2,000 pages, dedicates three of its chapters to issues that the tech world has called critical in the context of loosened international regulation: intellectual property, telecommunications and e-commerce.

A pact of 12 pacific rim nations — Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Singapore,Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, the United States andVietnam, with the notable exception of global superpower China — the TPP establishes an enhanced legal framework for trade, cutting up to 18,000 international tariffs on made-in-America products in signatory nations, while simultaneously raising concerns about the implications of new rules on international data flows and the activities of white hat cybersecurity researchers. For the full article click here 



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