Friday, 14 March 2014

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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 140312 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/140312.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Surveillance And Security Companies Set Up Zero-Day Exploit Portals For Governments To Use In 'Offensive' Actions - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140311/07593926528/surveillance-security-companies-set-up-zero-day-exploit-portals-governments-to-use-offensive-actions.shtml

Las mexicanas que se extinguieron con el TLCAN - http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/empresas/las-mexicanas-que-se-extinguieron-con-el-tlcan.html the reality of #NAFTA (v @sinkdeep)

The EC consultation on the review of EU #copyright rules is over - http://edri.org/ec-copyright-consultation/ 11,117 submissions received (v @carobotero)

important leak of #CETA regulatory council chapter [pdf] - http://eu-secretdeals.info/upload/2014/02/CETA-Regulatory-Cooperation-Chapter.pdf this is likely to be model for similar in #TAFTA/#TTIP

hugely important leak: #TTIP must be approved by each EU nation [pdf] - http://www.greenpeace.org/austria/Global/austria/dokumente/briefe/Leak_EUGutachten.pdf makes passing it much harder (v @Fschweitzer)


German government fights to keep I#SDS out of #TTIP [de] - http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2014-03/investitionsschutz-freihandelsabkommen-bundesregierung-ttip  wow (v @Fschweitzer)

Regierung gegen Investorenschutz im Freihandelsabkommen - http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2014-03/investitionsschutz-freihandelsabkommen-bundesregierung-ttip "Nicht nötig, sagt die Bundesregierung". (v @Fschweitzer)

Why #NSA's Betrayal Of Internet Security Is Akin To A Massive Public Health Disaster - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140312/09135026547/why-nsas-betrayal-internet-security-is-akin-to-massive-public-health-disaster.shtml pass it on...

#TTIP Update XVIII - http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/03/ttip-update-xviii/index.htm action-packed: new leaks, threat from most-favoured nation, & claim that Germany wants #ISDS out

Foreign Officials In the Dark About Their Own Spy Agencies’ Cooperation with NSA - https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/03/13/nsa-elected-officials-foreign-countries-unaware-countries-cooperation-us/ who's in control? (v @mmasnick)

How Big Pharma (and others) began lobbying on #TPP before you ever heard of it - http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/03/13/tpp-lobby/ amazing charts (v @Mlsif)

"Why do we listen to our favourite music over and over again?" - http://aeon.co/magazine/altered-states/why-we-love-repetition-in-music/  v good piece on music experience (v @carlzimmer)

Young Oxford Conservatives leader abuses DMCA to censor reporting of his calling Mandela a "terrorist" - http://boingboing.net/2014/03/13/young-oxford-conservatives-lea.html #streisand

A threat to democracy?  EU-US trade deal is no such thing - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/13/eu-us-trade-deal-no-threat-democracy-monbiot-transatlantic-partnership wow: practically every statement is wrong or misleading

Bomb shelters as underground farms - http://boingboing.net/2014/03/13/bomb-shelters-as-underground-f.html cool idea #london

Miliband’s pledge on TTIP: ‘Labour will protect the #NHS - http://mikesivier.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/milibands-pledge-on-ttip-labour-will-protect-the-nhs/ not clear how if #ISDS comes in...

shame on @ProcterGamble for complicity in destruction of orangutan habits - https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/page/contribute/stop-pandg source #palmoil responsibly now

ODF vs. OOXML: War of the Words - https://updegrove.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/odf-vs-ooxml-war-of-the-words/ great news:@AndyUpdegrove is writing a book on this key battle for open standards

Submarines, Sonar, and the Death of Whales: NRDC Goes Back to Court Against Dangerous US Navy Sonar - http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/jreynolds/submarines_sonar_and_the_death.html disgraceful

YouTube Gives UK Gov't Broad Powers To Censor Videos It Doesn't Like, Even If They're Legal - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140313/07571126564/youtube-gives-uk-govt-broad-powers-to-censor-videos-it-doesnt-like.shtml awful precedent

Global Warming May Be More Severe Than We Thought, Study Finds - http://mashable.com/2014/03/13/global-warming-severe-study/ well, isn't that just fab? #climatechange

#NSA Has Been Hijacking the Botnets of Other Hackers - http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/03/nsa-botnet/ hardly a consolation #snowden

California Gov. Jerry Brown Faces Protests Over #Fracking as Epic Drought Looms - http://www.alternet.org/environment/jerry-brown-faces-protests-over-fracking-support can't think why...

#NSA-Affäre: EU-Parlament droht mit Aus für Freihandelsabkommen - http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/eu-parlament-droht-wegen-nsa-affaere-mit-aus-fuer-freihandelsabkommen-a-958310.html "Selten ist sich das Europaparlament so einig"


Canada - South Korea Trade Agreement Demonstrates Deals Possible Without Increasing IP Protections - http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/7088/125/ #copyright

BBC 'Free Speech' Show Censors Gay Muslim after 'Concerns' from Mosque - http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/03/13/BBC-Free-Speech-Debate-Not-Free bbc being pathetic as usual (v @bengoldacre)

Mark Zuckerberg Says The US Has Become A Threat To, Rather Than A Champion For, The Internet - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140313/13450726570/mark-zuckerberg-says-us-has-become-threat-to-rather-than-champion-internet.shtml it's a start


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