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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 140302 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/140302.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Labour to overhaul spy agency controls in response to #Snowden files - http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/02/labour-spy-agency-controls-cooper-snowden-files nice to hear, but we shall see... #gchq

#Tibet’s Enduring Defiance - http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/03/opinion/international/tibets-enduring-defiance.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0 useful reminder of tragic situation (v @birgittaj ‏@eckholm)

Pressure on EU to publish criteria on endocrine disruptors - http://www.euractiv.com/health/pressure-growing-commission-publ-news-533843 "so serious from environment & health point of view"

#China Unleashes Yet Another Attempt At A State-Run Search Portal - http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/02/china-unleashes-yet-another-attempt-at-a-state-run-search-portal/ hmm, looks familiar...

VPN Users ‘Pirating’ Netflix Scare TV Networks - http://torrentfreak.com/vpn-users-pirating-netflix-scare-tv-networks-140303/ as usual, problem is public being under-served

#OpenAccess Publisher job advertisement from Reed Elsevier- https://reedelsevier.taleo.net/careersection/15/jobdetail.ftl?job=SCI001EC&lang=en&sns_id=#.Uu91X_InFAI.mailto interesting

#Monsanto Develops Hardier Strain Of Corn That Yields 4 Times Normal Litigation - http://www.theonion.com/articles/monsanto-develops-hardier-strain-of-corn-that-yiel,35377/ ha! (v @DaHammerstein)

#NHS England patient data 'uploaded to Google servers', Tory MP says - http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/03/nhs-england-patient-data-google-servers what a total privacy fiasco this is

#Apache Open Climate Workbench - https://climate.apache.org/ "climate model evaluation using model outputs from variety of sources" fab move

Brazil, EU Take Pride In Temporarily Avoiding The NSA With New Joint Undersea Cable Run - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140224/15313426336/brazil-eu-take-pride-temporarily-avoiding-nsa-with-new-joint-undersea-cable-run.shtml symbolic but telling

Neuer Verhandlungsstand von #CETA geleakt - https://netzpolitik.org/2014/neuer-verhandlungsstand-von-ceta-kanadaeu-geleakt/ notes that EU #copyright policy is being made in secret treaties #canada

Was das #CETA-Abkommen fürs Urheberrecht bedeuten könnte - http://irights.info/was-das-ceta-abkommen-fuers-urheberrecht-bedeuten-koennte good analysis (v @netzpolitik)#canada #EU

#TTIP Update XVII - http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/03/ttip-update-xvii/index.htm bad news, lots of leaks + debunking another misleading European Commission document #TAFTA

Keurig Will Use DRM In New Coffee Maker To Lock Out Refill Market - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140227/06521826371/keurig-will-use-drm-new-coffee-maker-to-lock-out-refill-market.shtml #DRM evil spreads - to coffeemakers...

Intellectual Ventures Starts Political Action Committee; Worried Serious Patent Reform Might Actually Happen - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140226/11033926357/intellectual-ventures-starts-political-action-committee-clearly-worried-that-serious-patent-reform-might-actually-happen-this.shtml

AFL-CIO, More Than 40 Other Organizations Call for Public Consultations on Investor Rights in Trade Deals - http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/AFL-CIO-More-Than-40-Other-Organizations-Call-for-Public-Consultations-on-Investor-Rights-in-Trade-Deals #TPP

AT&T Exec Claims EFF's Mocking NSA Logo Creates A 'Chilling Effect' - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140228/16400626395/att-exec-claims-effs-mocking-nsa-logo-creates-chilling-effect.shtml pathetic & insulting

UK seeking to ensure Russia sanctions do not harm City of London - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/03/uk-seeks-russia-harm-city-london-document you can tell who's running UK....

Public Knowledge Deflates Another Dubious Software Patent By Reducing It To Seven Lines Of BASIC - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140227/09465426377/public-knowledge-deflates-another-dubious-software-patent-reducing-it-to-seven-lines-basic.shtml nicely done

Microsoft's new strategy boss is ex-Blair guru - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/03/nadella_on_microsoft_exec_reshuffling/ if Nadella thinks "scroogled" is strategy, MS is truly finished

Police hid use of cell phone tracking device from judge because of NDA - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/police-hid-use-of-cell-phone-tracking-device-from-judge-because-of-nda/ sounds legit

Australian Man Can't Get Parts Because His Super Generic Name Is On US Terrorist Watchlist - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140226/18352626367/australian-man-cant-get-parts-because-his-super-generic-name-is-us-terrorist-watchlist.shtml wrong on so many levels