Under the draft provisions of the latest trade deal to be leaked by Wikileaks, countries could be barred from trying to control where their citizens' personal data is held or whether it's accessible from outside the country. Wikileaks has released 17 docu
That got me. If the agreement is in force, why do they wait 5 years before disclosure? Guess it's not good for *us*, just *them*. Election in the fall, people!
The NSA doesn't like the idea of the Germans keeping German information private.
This won't go well in Germany. They have rules, like we have here, that information (especially government information) must stay on hardware physically located in the government jurisdiction.
Ironically, I bet this was proposed by Microsoft or Google, who have fought to keep information in other locations away from US government hands.