From this article:

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Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) found out in September that the US Trade Representative's office had actually been secretly canvassing opinions on the Internet section of the agreement from 42 people, all of whom had signed a nondisclosure agreement before being shown the ACTA draft text.

After filing a Freedom of Information Act request (the names of the 42 people were considered a matter of "national security" and were not released voluntarily), KEI yesterday revealed the list of people who have had access to the ACTA Internet provisions. Here are the first 32 names, all of them people outside of USTR:

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"We were told that everyone who needed to see the documents has seen them," he writes. "Outside of Public Knowledge and CDT, everyone who received the documents was representing a large corporate entity."

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What the hell is going on here? The US Government is negotiating a treaty with implications for everyone involved in I.T., and you have to sign an NDA to view it? And only a (very) select few are even given the opportunity.

I'm afraid I'm left feeling remarkably cynical towards ACTA; I fear it will be another poorly written loophole-ridden law like the DMCA (which was really intended to prevent criticism of photoshopping, don't you know).

Rant over.