[OPINION] A big defeat for Big Tech

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The firms that make money from our data have spent years trying to equate “free flows of data” with free speech. They will try to frame any Biden administration public-interest protections as an effort to shut down access to news websites, cripple the internet, and empower authoritarians. That is nonsense.

the US from placing any restrictions on “the cross-border transfer of information, including personal information” to if such transfers were related to the business of any investor or service provider operating in the US or other countries signing the agreement. Few people realized the Trump-era proposal even existed – except, of course, for the lobbyists who had been quietly commandeering trade talks. While no previous US trade pacts had included provisions pre-empting executive and congressional authority over data regulation, digital platforms suddenly would have been granted special secrecy rights.

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