Data privacy shapes up as a next-generation trade barrier

By Krista Hughes WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Revelations about U.S. digital eavesdropping have fanned concerns about Internet privacy and may complicate U.S. attempts to write rules enshrining the free flow of data into trade pacts with European and Pacific trading partners. "Restrictions on information flows are trade barriers," Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, said at a Cato Institute ...



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