Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 140226 -
http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2014/02/140226.html yesterday's
tweets as a single Web page #MMDD
#TPP too
tough for Groser's talent -
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/columnists/9769135/TPP-too-tough-for-Grosers-talent why
should #NZ "bend
over backwards to help the US cement this deal"?
#Qatar's
foreign domestic workers subjected to slave-like conditions -
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/feb/26/qatar-foreign-workers-slave-conditions sounds
appalling, if confirmed
#TTIP:
Free Trade Is Not So Free After All -
http://www.indepthnews.info/index.php/global-issues/2064-free-trade-is-not-so-free-after-all "EU
behaviour is a disgrace, but also routine." (v
@corporateeurope)
#TTIP ‘challenged’
by environmental critics, EU says -
http://www.euractiv.com/trade/ttip-challenged-environmental-cr-news-533794 rightly
so (v @olivierhoedeman @ArthurNeslen)#TAFTA #ISDS
How Commission is out-manoeuvring the
European Parliament to undermine #netneutrality -
http://edri.org/ec_strategy/ good
analysis of bad stuff
#TTIP threatens
financial reform and the public interest -
http://somo.nl/news-en/somo-news/ttip-undermines-financial-regulation-and-leaves-citizens-unprotected I
missed this last month; good analysis of crucial aspect
#TTIP Updates
- The Glyn Moody blogs -
http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/11/ttip-updates-the-glyn-moody-blogs/index.htm now
up to number 16... #TAFTA #ISDS
EU draft proposal on trade in services,
investment and e-commerce for the #TTIP negotiations
-
http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2014-02/freihandelsabkommen-eu-sonderrechte-konzerne NB:
huge new leak
that important #TTIP leak
can be downloaded from here:
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1030459/eu-kommission-position-in-den.pdf it's
in English, and contains key #ISDS section
#TAFTA
IETF Draft Wants To Formalize
'Man-In-The-Middle' Decryption Of Data As It Passes Through 'Trusted
Proxies' -
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140226/07270626350/ietf-draft-wants-to-formalize-man-in-the-middle-decryption-data-as-it-passes-through-trusted-proxies.shtml #MITM
great news: consultation on
#OpenStandards and
#ODF extended
http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/02/stand-up-for-open-standards-and-odf/index.htm you
now have until 5pm Friday 28th Feb - pl. use it
Millions of dollars of public money are
lost each year to fraud: http://stopsecretcontracts.org/ aims
to fight it; pl. spread the word #transparency
Kepler: Opening the Planet Verification
Bottleneck - http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=30051 such
an exciting time in this field
#GCHQ intercepted
webcam images of millions of Yahoo users -
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo still
"authorised, necessary and proportionate" really??
given the continuing revelations about
the slimy stuff they get up to, why would any decent person ever want
to join #GCHQ now...?
Two Extended Consultations, Two
Important Opportunities -
http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/02/two-extended-consultations-two-important-opportunities/index.htm still
time to comment on #openstandards &
#eu #copyright
The European Commission is failing
#EU animals -
http://action.ciwf.org.uk/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=119&ea.campaign.id=25833&ea.tracking.id=7774353c&utm_campaign=transport humanity
begins on the farm
Abe: Avoid time limit for Japan-US
#TPP -
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001072671 “We
never break election promises” 4 "tariffs on 5 agricultural
categories"
NSA robots are 'collecting' your data,
too, and they're getting away with it -
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/27/nsa-robots-algorithm-surveillance-bruce-schneier important
pt.: this is still spying
"#GCHQ personnel stumbling
across images of child abuse could be committing a criminal offence"
-
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/02/rule-34-meet-kafka.html serious
points
The Moazzam Begg Arrest: Part of the
Effort to Criminalize Muslim Political Dissent -
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/27/moazzam-begg-arrest-part-effort-criminalize-muslim-political-dissent/ shame
on the UK government
"likely means that the #NSA has
webcam images of American citizens in their storage houses" -
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140227/09452426376/peek-a-boo-gchq-has-been-checking-you-out-through-your-webcam.shtml Americans
please note
#AU:
"further extension of patent monopolies through [#TPP] adding
hundreds more millions to the health budget! -
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-28/gleeson-cost-cutting-crusade-ignores-vital-health-report/5289726
#GCHQ's
cover for Optic Nerve provided by legislation introduced in 2000 -
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-insists-optic-nerve-program-legal-legislation-2000 #RIPA is
not fit for purpose: repeal it
#TPP:
Japan's inflexibility and its agreement with the US leave little
room, and little movement, for other nations -
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11211006
Five year ambition for open
philanthropy in the UK -
http://threesixtygiving.com/2013/06/24/five-year-ambition-for-open-philanthropy-in-the-uk/ great
idea (v @EllnMllr)
UK Hacker Faces Extradition To US, Not
To Mention 5 Years' Imprisonment In UK For Failing To Hand Over
Crypto Keys -
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140227/08165326373/british-hacker-faces-extradition-to-us-not-to-mention-five-years-imprisonment-uk-failing-to-hand-over-encryption-keys.shtml
Agriculture in #TPP:
Repeating #NAFTA’s
mistakes -
http://www.iatp.org/blog/201402/agriculture-in-tpp-repeating-nafta%E2%80%99s-mistakes crucial
area
