At one point last year, rumors swirled that the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) might be signed, sealed, and delivered by the end of 2008. That didn’t happen, of course, and now a group of consumer groups wants to make sure that 2009 isn’t any kinder to the treaty. The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) has called for a total suspension of treaty negotiations “until the EU and the US publish the full text of all negotiating documents and agree to additional transparency measures.”

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Transatlantic coalition calls for "halt" to ACTA talks