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DOWNLOAD REPORT Washington, D.C. – Big Tech interests have opened a new front in their attack against strong privacy, anti-monopoly and algorithmic transparency policies in the United States and worldwide by trying to hijack trade deals and insert “digital trade” rules that would severely limit, if not outright ban, key aspects of these policies. In […]
A New Analysis of the Annual U.S. Trade Barriers Report Finds Industry Misappropriating Trade Claims to Attack Other Nations’ Competition Policies, Including Some Pending Here Download The Full Report Introduction As digital mega-platforms have continued to grow in size and expand their influence over every aspect of peoples’ public and private lives, U.S. policymakers and […]
by Lori Wallach Welcome to Rethink Trade, where we unpack “trade” policy, law and politics and how it affects your daily life more than you think. Much of what is labeled trade today is not about actual trade stuff, like tariffs or quotas. We’ll reveal how Big Tech, Big Pharma, Wall Street et al. use […]
Unveiling “Digital Trade” Threats to Tech Oversight The largest online platforms, like Google and Amazon, and their myriad lobbying associations and front groups have lobbied to capture trade negotiations to insert binding trade-agreement terms that would derail countries’ online privacy, competition, artificial intelligence, right to repair, civil rights, and other policies. The companies’ goal is […]
A Big Defeat for Big Tech Mar 18, 2024JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ Tech companies know that if there is an open, democratic debate about data security, consumers’ concerns about digital safeguards will win out. And while the industry’s lobbyists tried to ensure that no such debate could ever occur, one of their more cynical moves has […]
WATCH NOW! Our director Lori Wallach joined U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Cherika Carter (Washington State Labor Council), Jen Lee (ACLU Washington), Josua Mata (SENTRO) and M.C. Julie Bouanna (Washington Fair Trade Coalition), for Trade Justice Education Fund’s town hall on “digital trade” proposals and their impact on worker rights, A.I. discrimination, privacy, and small […]
Bloomberg Government | 10 July 2023 Critics Slam Lobbying by Tech Giants in Indo-Pacific Trade Talks By Emily Birnbaum and Eric Martin | July 10, 2023 5:00AM ET Technology giants are drawing protests as they aggressively try to shape a new US trade deal with Australia, South Korea and other members of the Indo-Pacific region […]
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LOADED: Corporate Interests Dominate the Official U.S. Government Trade Advisory System March 30th, 2023 Nearly 500 official U.S. trade advisors, most of them representing corporate interests, have access to classified U.S. trade texts and secretive processes. The public, press, and, to some degree, even Congress are locked out. The combination of extreme secrecy and this […]
