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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 140311 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.ch/2014/03/130311.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

last chance: Please Contact MEPs today: Big Votes in European Parliament today - http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/03/big-votes-in-european-parliament-please-contact-meps/index.htm #EUdataP & #EPInquiry: important

An online Magna Carta:@timberners_lee calls for bill of rights for web - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/12/online-magna-carta-berners-lee-web great timing for the big vote in EU today

Mosaic: The Publishing Of Science, And The Science Of Publishing - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140309/03241526499/mosaic-publishing-science-science-publishing.shtml how free? #openaccess

US Senators shocked by EU’s cheese-name claims - http://www.euractiv.com/cap/us-senators-shocked-eu-cheese-na-news-534077 will EU back down over GI demands? #TAFTA/#TTIP

Web firms face a strict new set of privacy rules in Europe – here’s what to expect - http://gigaom.com/2014/03/12/web-firms-face-a-strict-new-set-of-privacy-rules-in-europe-heres-what-to-expect/ good summary of EU privacy win

The leak which offers a rare glimpse into secret EU-US free market talks - http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2014/03/12/comment-the-leak-which-offers-a-rare-glimpse-into-secret-eu great analysis of #ISDS in finance

what a day for EU: both #EUdataP #EPinquiry passed - congrats to everyone who worked on this. it's not over, but we're getting there

[Update] Big Votes in European Parliament - Passed - http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/03/big-votes-in-european-parliament-please-contact-meps/index.htm thanks everyone who wrote to their MEPs & helped make it happen

EU Parliament: #TTIP ""could be endangered" if blanket mass surveillance by #NSA does not stop" - http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20140307IPR38203/html/US-NSA-stop-mass-surveillance-now-or-face-consequences-MEPs-say big slap-down

#TTIP negotiators deaf to calls for transparency - https://www.foeeurope.org/EU-US-trade-negotiators-deaf-transparency-120314 shameful bias towards business against against public advocates

how #ISDS is being used to demand huge sums from EU countries already suffering from austerity measures - http://www.globalresearch.ca/corrupt-secret-global-trade-and-investor-agreements-eu-facilitating-corporate-plunder/5372796 #TTIP

help, please: anybody know anything about the European Risk Forum - who funds them, for example?

#NSA Plans to Infect “Millions” of Computers with Malware - https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/03/12/nsa-plans-infect-millions-computers-malware/ still think this is about terrorists? (v @raycorrigan)

Bad science, health risks, and the EU/US trade treaty - http://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/molly-scott-cato/bad-science-health-risks-and-euus-trade-treaty defending the #precautionaryprinciple in #TTIP/#TAFTA

Why Won't Senator Feinstein Call #Torture Torture? - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140311/17104926535/why-wont-senator-feinstein-call-torture-torture.shtml pure cowardice

#TPP Reveals Deadly Cost of American Patents - http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/03/trans-pacific-partnership-reveals-deadly-cost-american-patents.html "TPP would prolong the high cost of treating breast cancer"

#NSA Aiming To Infect 'Millions' Of Computers Worldwide With Its Malware; Targets Telco/ISP Systems Administrators - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140312/07334826545/nsa-aiming-to-infect-millions-computers-worldwide-with-its-malware-targets-telcoisp-systems-administrators.shtml

New Snowden Docs Reveal How The #FISA Court Reinterpreted The Law -- And Its Own Role -- In Total Secrecy - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140311/17562426536/new-snowden-docs-reveal-how-fisa-court-reinterpreted-law-its-own-role-total-secrecy.shtml charming

On The Web's 25th Anniversary,@timberners_lee Calls For A Bill of Rights For Online Users - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140312/05293426539/webs-25th-anniversary-berners-lee-calls-bill-rights-online-users.shtml #nsa #gchq

Stop negotiating the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (#TTIP) - http://action.sumofus.org/a/stop-ttip/ epetition...

Environmentalists Propose $50 Billion Buyout of Coal Industry - To Shut It Down - http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/03/12/1655214/environmentalists-propose-50-billion-buyout-of-coal-industry---to-shut-it-down thinking big

The US Chemicals In Commerce Act - http://www.ceh.org/stopcica/ is incompatible with EU approach to chemicals: what happens with #TAFTA/#TTIP?

"More work needed on EU data protection legal reform" [pdf] - http://www.digitaleurope.org/DocumentDownload.aspx?Command=Core_Download&EntryId=705 translation: we will lobby even harder... #EudataP

#Ucas sells access to student data for phone and drinks firms' marketing - http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/12/ucas-sells-marketing-access-student-data-advertisers @ucas_online is greedy & unprincipled

Ohio earthquakes rattle up concerns about #fracking - http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-ohio-earthquakes-fracking-20140312,0,4938210.story "20-fold increase in small earthquakes during past few years"

Replicant developers find and close Samsung Galaxy backdoor - https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/replicant-developers-find-and-close-samsung-galaxy-backdoor serious, if confirmed:@SamsungMobile, commnets?