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Why trade is not the place for the EU to negotiate privacy

Margot Kaminski, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
PUBLISHED ON: 23 Jan 2015

As negotiations progress over the EU-US free-trade agreement TTIP, it is natural that somebody will propose addressing privacy differences through trade. But several features of free trade agreements make negotiating data protection in the trade regime a very bad idea for the EU.