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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130605 - http://bit.ly/11Gud46 yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Pesticides are a 'dead end' for bees and the environment - http://bit.ly/15D8mzf note pesticide ban would be impossible under #TAFTA/#TTIP

Verizon: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily - http://bit.ly/11tdhCE imagine what NSA is doing with EU records

UK Government £6,000 per year per desktop spend a frightening insight into public sector IT - http://bit.ly/110ExFw one word: #Windows

Saudi Arabia bans Viber web communication tool - http://reut.rs/15Mlu5B had to happen

Wie die Industrielobby den EU-Datenschutz verwässern will - http://bit.ly/14z6ANc betrayed by #EU politicians

Europeans see EU going in the wrong direction: Survey - http://bit.ly/13HhkKq it'll be worse once they learn about investor-state disputes

EU institutions seek exclusion, extra time on data protection - http://bit.ly/110H1na oh look, EU thinks it's above its own laws

People Begin To Wake Up To Massive Dangers Of Investor-State Dispute Resolution - http://bit.ly/15MpeEk pl. spread this widely #TAFTA/#TTIP

It's time we challenged agricultural hegemony - http://bit.ly/10St9i8 #farmers, not #badgers, are the problem in the US

French MPs adopt a government amendment denying priority to #freesw in future public service for digital education - http://bit.ly/13n72jR

Meeting Mr #Firefox: Johnathan Nightingale - http://bit.ly/11GCtRN what's in store for this key #opensource project #mozilla

US terms for Japan’s entry holds Japan and #TPP to ransom - http://bit.ly/15MBlRF insane: #japan gives US a blank cheque; great analysis

Hugenholtz & Hargreaves on Modernising the European #Copyright Framework - http://bit.ly/11GVJ1F not read it, but looks interesting

Feds say they can search your laptop at the border but won’t say why - http://ars.to/15DPfF3 the US police state welcomes you...

#Python Software Foundation publishes Code of Conduct - http://bit.ly/190nsmW interesting move

Data protection in the EU: the certainty of uncertainty - http://bit.ly/1b8cpEO good intro to area #privacy

Why does the #EU hate #LDCs so much? - http://bit.ly/186ek0p doesn't it realise that one day it will be begging them for help?

#Turkey's resistance image forged as pepper spray burns woman in red dress - http://bit.ly/13no5lJ nice piece

White House upholds 'critical tool in protecting nation from terrorist threats' - http://bit.ly/17rctSP how do people still fall for this?

#Erdogan defies Turkish protesters - live updates - http://bit.ly/190EqkY he is clearly out of his pram #turkey

The Trouble with the #TPP: My Appearance before the International Trade Committee - http://bit.ly/13d8543 good stuff from @mgeist

Ascending the stack: climbing Battersea Power Station - http://bit.ly/ZvnePa wonderful pix; they also make me feel sick (v @sinkdeep)

RT @normative  That's like saying searches of homes can be useful to find murder weapons... so we  searched everyone's home. >> this

#Australia Sets New Overblocking Record: Aims For One Site, Takes Down 250,000 - http://bit.ly/12uSMc7 not really close, was it?

"This is for everyone" wrote @timberners_lee during the London Olympics; but that was before the Web was #DRM'd... http://bit.ly/12uT3vA

The NSA surveillance story reinforces why an entity like #WikiLeaks is so important - http://bit.ly/13JhoJy & why we must support it

NSA taps in to internet giants' systems to mine user data, secret files reveal - http://bit.ly/13oivPS I'm glad I always assumed so #PGP

What We Don't Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know - http://bit.ly/14jUtXo @schneierblog on fine form

New York Senate makes it a felony to annoy a police officer - http://bit.ly/16O06kC no comment necessary