#EU & #Singapore signed a Digital Trade Agreement (#DTA) today! This deal aims to boost cross-border digital trade, protect consumers, and ensure legal certainty for businesses. A key step in deepening cooperation & supporting rules-based trade.

https://www.ecuradio.eu/2025/05/digital-trade-agreement-signed-between-eu-singapore/

Habemus #EDRigram

EDRi member @iurecz wins #DataRetention dispute in the Czech Republic
We challenge techno-solutionist narratives in #DigitalSurveillance
How #DigitalTrade is the new frontline in the fight for our rights

Read about this and more in the latest edition:
https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-7-may-2025/

Trade rules should encompass digital trade

The shift to digital technology calls for the movement of data and information across borders, with all stakeholders depending on seamless and uninterrupted information flows across companies and countries. #digitaltrade

https://www.openforum.com.au/trade-rules-should-encompass-digital-trade/

It’s up to the EU to hold back the great tech decoupling https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/opinion/its-up-to-the-eu-to-hold-back-the-great-tech-decoupling/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ASML #China #digitaltrade #EUJapan #EUSouthKorea

WEBCAST MAR 19 – The WTO’s Digital Trade Negotiations in the Wake of its 13th Ministerial Conference

On Tuesday March 19, 2024, at 11:00-12:30 EDT (15:00-16:30 UTC), the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, as part of its Global Digital Governance series, presents a webinar 'The WTO’s Digital Trade Negotiations in the Wake of its 13th Ministerial Conference'.

The World Trade Organization is struggl

https://isoc.live/17462/

India’s plan to let 1998 digital trade deal expire may worsen chip shortage - Enlarge (credit: Narumon Bowonkitwanchai | Moment)

India's pla... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2005621 #worldtradeorganization #semiconductorindustry #semiconductors #customsduties #digitaltrade #chipssupply #e-commerce #aichips #policy #india

Last week, the @USTradeRep confirmed that the United States was withdrawing support for key #DigitalTrade rules. The announcement is an abrupt turn for not only U.S. trade policy, but brings forth the question, what else is the United States abandoning in the digital governance space?
https://www.project-disco.org/21st-century-trade/the-new-us-digital-trade-agenda-retreat/

#EDPS has recently issued an Opinion on the Recommendation for a Council Decision authorising the opening of negotiations for #digitaltrade disciplines w/ the Republic of #Korea and w/ #Singapore. Read the Opinion to learn more about our recommendations: https://europa.eu/!xtM6nj

#BigTech #Lobbyists Explain How They Took Over #Washington. An amazing #researchpaper unearths how the #techindustry invented the concept of #digitaltrade and sold it to government officials. https://prospect.org/power/2023-04-18-big-tech-lobbyists-took-over-washington/ see also https://rethinktrade.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/International-Preemption-by-Trade-Agreement-Explainer.pdf #Congress #lobbying

Any folks here working on #DigitalTrade from a "what ar/could be the consequences on #HumanRights and #Democracy? Also interested in discussing the current governmental leaning towards regulating #AI through #standards and #certifications and how these interplay with current #Digitaltrade demands. Pinging @mikarv