The Trans-Pacific Partnership has its fair share of critics among the digerati. Activists have been up in arms for years over leaked chapters of this international trade proposal, which is under consideration by US law makers.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership has its fair share of critics among the digerati. Activists have been up in arms for years over leaked chapters of this international trade proposal, which is under consideration by US law makers.
The TPP could lead to seized and destroyed devices, outlaw security research done without permission, and pave the way to perpetual insecurity for the IoT ecosystem.
To some, TPP stands for Trans Pacific Partnership (an alleged free trade agreement). To me it's synonymous with toilet paper, with a dangling P at the end that stands for politics.
Intellectual property rights chapter appears to give Trans-Pacific Partnership countries' countries greater power to stop information from going public
It is erroneous to believe that free traders have been historically in favor of free trade agreements between governments. Paradoxically, the opposite is true.
Had the President of Nobel Peace Prize-winning Doctors Without Borders not warned us of the "imminent threat to global health" posed by the TPP, would these 22 doctors and patients have lost their lives early Saturday?
It wasn't long ago I had the typical mainline conservative view on immigration, but arguments such as Jeffrey Tucker's on this recent Stossel show have really brought me around to agree that free trade should include labor and not just goods.
Las Vegas, one of the last major US cities where Uber has not been able to operate, is opening its doors to on-demand transportation companies after new ride-hailing rules were approved across Nevada on Friday.
As the U.S. presidential campaign exposes contempt for elites and angst over the future, Pope Francis arrives for his first visit with plans to denounce gross inequality and planetary neglect.
National security secrecy may be appropriate to protect us from our enemies; it should not be used to protect our politicians from us." Margot E. Kaminski, NYT, April 14, 2015.
Citing corruption, "backroom deal-making," and leaks that show the Obama administration is violating its assurances not to include immigration in its trade agreements, Senator Ted Cruz...
After the Republican-controlled Senate foolishly passed the so-called "Obamatrade" bill, the House leadership (John Boehner, Steve Scalise, Paul Ryan, et al.) worked their tails off to pass the bill.
And just like that, President Obama's fast track of his "great job creation" bill is defeated in a 126-302 procedural vote which stumbled over what is known as the Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Washington's failure in recent years to keep careful watch over what goods are made where -- especially when it comes to such vital items as electronics and drugs -- means the United States now depends far more on China than vice versa.
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