Here’s what large tech companies lost when Trump’s win killed the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Here’s what American technology companies would have gotten had the Trans-Pacific Partnership been finalized.

• The TPP’s e-commerce chapter included the world’s first set of international trade rules that would have barred governments from blocking how companies share data across national borders.The Internet works by freely moving data across the world.
• In many of the participating countries it is not currently illegal to break the digital rights management, a digital lock that technology companies can add to their products to prevent piracy, tinkering and repair.
• Six of the twelve participating countries would have expanded their copyright terms an additional 20 years.
• Tech companies also were in favor of the TPP’s ban on “forced localization,” or laws that require a company to keep its citizens’ user data stored within its borders.