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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 141221 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/141221.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page

GCHQ warns serious criminals have been lost in wake of Snowden leaks - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11300936/GCHQ-warns-serious-criminals-have-been-lost-in-wake-of-Edward-Snowden-leaks.html IOW, they actually have to do some work now

Man dies after being shot with a #Taser in suspected burglary - http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/22/man-dies-shot-taser-ipcc-police-staffordshire-suspected-burglary get rid of these lethal things now

re:publica 2015 - call for papers - http://re-publica.de/en/call-papers always good stuff here

#Finland Abolishes #Copyright Levies On Digital Devices - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141213/05334429422/finland-abolishes-copyright-levies-digital-devices.shtml all countries should do the same

Monkey saves dying friend at Indian train station - video - http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/dec/22/monkey-saves-dying-friend-train-station-india-video worth bearing in mind...

Big Broadband's Hail Mary To Stop The FCC: Have Congress Pretend To Do Its Job - https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20141221/07202529493/big-broadbands-hail-mary-to-stop-fcc-have-congress-pretend-to-do-its-job.shtml #netneutrality

Report: Samsung continues its #Tizen experiment with a $100-ish phone - http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/12/report-samsung-plans-a-100-ish-tizen-smartphone-for-january/ amazed this still going; but pleased

NANOPLUG: The World's First Invisible Hearing Aid - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nanoplug-the-world-s-first-invisible-hearing-aid looks impressive; let's hope they manage to produce it

Free Access to Science Research Doesn't Benefit Everyone - http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/12/free-access-to-science-research-doesnt-benefit-everyone/383875/?single_page=true unbalanced: focuses only on challenges (v @Stephen_Curry)

"it appears that China censored the American film offerings this season, and not Sony" - http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2014/12/21/21023 interesting analysis

Mississippi AG backs off Google investigation pushed by MPAA - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/mississippi-ag-backs-off-google-investigation-pushed-by-mpaa/ gosh, what a surprise...not

#TTIP letter from @EU_Commission does not address issues of #ISDS making renationalisation prohibitively expensive - http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/Health/Health-Committee-TTIP-correspondence.pdf

How Biologics Makers Are Leveraging Political Power to
Maintain #Monopolies and Keep Prices Sky-High - http://www.citizen.org/documents/report-biologics-industry-leverages-political-power-to-maintain-monopolies-and-inflate-prices.pdf #pharma