The Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) is not the threat to consumer privacy that critics claim it to be, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation Vice President Stephen Ezell writes in an op-ed for The Christian Science Monitor. “Data increasingly represents the lifeblood of the global economy. The reality is that the terms the U.S. seeks in TISA, TPP and TTIP are designed to facilitate the exchange of information, data and knowledge that make the world work today,” he writes. “It is not a coordinated campaign to undermine individuals’ privacy rights; rather, it is an effort to prevent new, disruptive forms of digital protectionism in the 21st century.”
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