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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is fond of shooting his mouth off, castigating this nation and that, or this company and that, in his bid to show that the US can dictate terms of behaviour to the rest of the world.

The data of 150,000 patients, who had told their GPs that they did not wish to share it, was shared because the patients' objections were not sent to Britain's National Health Service due to errors in third-party software supplied by a company known as TPP.

The first Australian beneficiary of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement appears to have surfaced and unsurprisingly it is the Trade Minister himself.

COMMENT The 12 countries that are negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement have begun what is considered a last-ditch round of talks to conclude a deal before the US election season swings into high-gear.

COMMENT In what is a perfectly natural confluence, the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, the data retention proposals and the copyright law changes are coming together to take effect around the same time. Nothing surprising here.

The Trans Pacific Partnership is a disgrace. So is the way it is being developed.

A strong coalition has emerged against the Trans Pacific Partnership, the agreement being hammered out in secret that will restrict online intellectual freedom.

A new lobby group called ’Our Fair Deal Coalition’ has called on governments involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations to reject copyright proposals that would limit the open Internet, access to knowledge, and curtail economic opportunity.

Wikileaks has leaked a draft of the IP chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, confirming the Australian government is backing a reinforcement of geoblocking and will also be opposing moves to make ISPs not responsible for what their users do.