{"id":9220,"date":"2016-03-21T15:53:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T05:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macquarietelecom.com\/?p=9220"},"modified":"2023-03-01T16:38:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T05:38:40","slug":"future-of-tpp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macquarietechnologygroup.com\/news\/future-of-tpp\/","title":{"rendered":"The TPP and the Future of Jurisdictional Reach"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership has been the definition of a long, slow burn issue. Partly this is because is has taken so long \u2013 five years of negotiations \u2013 and partly because there are so many issues wrapped up in it.<\/p>\n

One issue that has been of interest to Macquarie Telecom has been its impact on the ability of governments to require some sensitive personal information to be held in data centres onshore.There was confusion about this issue because the negotiations were secret and only sketchy information emerged during the years of negotiations.But now that the TPP has been released, it is apparent it has not fundamentally changed the game.<\/p>\n

What has happened in courts around the world over the past nine months, however, does look like it might be heading toward a seismic showdown.<\/p>\n

Before discussing how I have reached those views, let me explain why we think data residency is an issue consumers should be interested in, and what is going on with the TPP.<\/p>\n

We entered the data centre world in 1999, the first Australian telco to build a datacentre. We\u2019ve been in the cloud services and government market for well over a decade. As the first Australian Telco to build a data centre, and having been advocating both cloud generally and the government adopting of cloud specifically, since before the beginning of this decade, we\u2019ve been talking about the importance of getting security right for a long time. And, within that, we\u2019ve spoken at length on the importance of those holding people\u2019s sensitive information making informed choices about whether that needs to be kept within Australia.<\/p>\n

The reasons are simple.<\/p>\n