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What does privacy have to do with trade agreements? As Canada, the U.S., and nine other countries negotiate a multilateral trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the TPP, U.S. negotiators are pushing to include a provision that would commit members to allowing free-flow of data over their borders. They want to prevent countries from implementing “localization requirements” that require companies doing business in their jurisdiction to physically locate their computer servers there.

The next ‘big one’: not an earthquake, but a collapse of the digital network that’s become central to our lives