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22 October 2017

UK and US Citizens: Please Request Your Personal Data Held By Cambridge Analytica

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By now, many people have probably heard about the company Cambridge Analytica .  By its own admission, it played a major role in the succes...
02 January 2016

The Rise and Fall of TTIP, As Told in 51 Updates

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This year will be make or break for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).  It is already years behind its original, ho...
23 November 2013

TTIP Update II

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As I noted in my first TTIP Update about the current negotiations between the EU and US over a massive trade agreement that is far fro...
27 October 2013

How To Solve Overclassification: Give Government Departments A Limited Annual 'Secrecy Budget'

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Recently we noted that " overclassification " of sensitive material actually leads to more secrets being revealed. The New Yo...
18 September 2013

Now US And EU Want To Apply Upward Ratchet To TRIPS Itself

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Here on Techdirt we often talk about the copyright ratchet -- the fact that for three hundred years changes to copyright have always b...
28 July 2013

TTIP's "Science-based" Assault on Democracy Begins

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Last month I predicted that one of the main tropes that would be used in the TAFTA/TTIP negotiations would by that of "science-based...
20 July 2013

US Demands Transparency Everywhere -- But Only From Everyone Else

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Techdirt has written about the Special 301 report many times, but that's not the only US government publication putting other countr...
17 May 2013

Why are Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle Backing the Fight *Against* the Blind?

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One of the more disgraceful examples of the inherent selfishness of the copyright world is that it has consistently blocked a glo...
31 March 2013

South Korea Considers Dumping Draconian Copyright Law Forced On It By The US

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As Mike noted a couple of days ago, international trade agreements often have the effect of constraining the power of national legislat...

Now US Wants Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement With European Union To Include Turkey: Who's Next?

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Last week we wrote about the important news that Mexico is asking to join what began as a bilateral trade agreement between the US and ...

Why TAFTA Matters, and What We Should Do About It

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Back in January, I wrote about what I called the "Trans-Atlantic Partnership Agreement", by analogy with the Trans-Pacific Part...

Mexico Will Ask To Join US-EU Transatlantic Trade Agreement

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Things are moving fast with the proposed US-EU transatlantic free trade agreement (TAFTA). It was only a few weeks ago that the formal ...

Public Well-Being Must Be 'Primary Measurement' Of US-EU Trade Agreement

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Now that the US and EU have officially announced the start of talks on a new bilateral free trade agreement -- sorry, a "trade an...
09 March 2013

How Lobbyists' Changes To EU Data Protection Regulation Were Copied Word-For-Word Into Proposed Amendments

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Everyone knows that politicians are lobbied, sometimes massively. But it's rare to be able to track directly the detailed effects of...
11 February 2013

Here's A Taste Of What Publishers Will Do If First Sale Rights For Foreign Goods Disappear

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As Techdirt reported a few months back, the Supreme Court Justices seem rightly concerned about the " parade of horribles " -- ...
06 January 2013

After ACTA: Trans-Atlantic Partnership Agreement

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It's not often that trade agreements make it to the front page of the newspapers, but that's what happened on New Year's Day:...
08 December 2012

Stuxnet's Infection Of Chevron Shows Why 'Weaponized' Malware Is A Bad Idea

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The Stuxnet worm that attacked an Iranian nuclear enrichment facility a couple of years ago was exceptional from several viewpoints . It...
13 October 2012

California To Commission 50 Open Textbooks For 2013; Finnish Teachers Write One In A Weekend

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Techdirt has been following open textbooks for some time now, and 2012 looks to be a bumper year for them. Here, for example, is a major...
23 July 2012

Australia Wants To Join The Snooper's Club: Why That's Bad For All Of Us

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They say that a lie is halfway around the world before the truth has got its boots on, and the same seems to be true about Internet policy...
15 July 2012

Is Open Data A Boon Or A Bane?

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Techdirt often writes about the benefits of openness and sharing. One area that is increasingly coming to the fore is open data -- for e...