From Ars Technica:
World, get ready for the DMCA: ACTA's Internet chapter leaks. This includes:
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If the bill sounds much like existing American law, it should; the US delegation drafted the Internet section of ACTA, and the entire document is being negotiated as an executive agreement, meaning that it can be adopted without Congressional consent but may not alter US law. Thus, unsurprisingly, the leaked document takes the DMCA worldwide.
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In places like Europe, there's also huge concern about how these American-pushed policies would interact with existing privacy law. Just today, European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx issued an extraordinary opinion (PDF) in which he "regrets that he was not consulted by the European Commission on the content" of ACTA.
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I assume Peter Hustinx will be fired as soon as practical, but this is another indication that ACTA secrecy may end up being counter productive.