UK minister Julia Lopez dropped this in the debate on data proteciton: "We are also delighted to be co-hosting, in partnership with the United States, the next workshop of the global cross-border privacy rules forum in London this week" What?? hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2023-0… 🧵 2/10 There is not a lot of information anywhere about this really big policy shift for UK data protection. CBPR is a private certification regime backed by governments. It was lauched in 2022 to spread the Asia-Pacific (APEC) model of data regulation.
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WTO e-commerce #digitaltrade consolidated draft leaked by @bilaterals_org Some interesting things (1/n) 🧵bilaterals.org/IMG/pdf/wto_pl… (2/n) Intermediary liability is included without brackets, normally meaning there is some agreement. The text is based on US proposals but has more extensive caveats and exceptions than existing US trade deals