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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 150312 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.de/2015/03/150312.html yesterday's tweets as a single page

Report Says UK Citizens Must Give Up Right 2 Privacy Because 'Terrorism', Reveals Huge Secret Government Databases - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150312/09283830302/report-says-uk-citizens-must-give-up-right-to-privacy-because-terrorism-reveals-huge-secret-government-databases.shtml

US anger at Britain joining Chinese-led investment bank AIIB - http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/13/white-house-pointedly-asks-uk-to-use-its-voice-as-part-of-chinese-led-bank yes: work with #China, don't try to bully with #TTIP

Now it’s time for a review OF the ISC - https://paulbernal.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/now-its-time-for-a-review-of-the-isc/ perceptive analysis, as ever

Krude Theorien: #TTIP soll #China in Schach halten - http://blog.campact.de/2015/03/krude-theorien-ttip-soll-china-in-schach-halten/ good analysis of a feeble idea

#OpenSource #Crypto is Hard: Part 7846 - http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/mailpile-3600843/ doesn't mean we should give up, though...

EU damaged if it fails to agree US trade deal - UK minister - http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/03/12/uk-britain-europe-trade-idUKKBN0M821F20150312 no: studies show #TTIP will eviscerate intra-EU trade

#TTIP will gut the #EU, not boost it: here's the Bertelsmann study that predicts massive decline in intra-EU trade - http://www.bfna.org/sites/default/files/TTIP-GED%20study%2017June%202013.pdf

#TTIP 'threat to people's health in UK and across Europe' - http://www.fph.org.uk/ttip_%27threat_to_people%27s_health_in_uk_and_across_europe%27 "say 71 public health orgs from 41 European countries"

Protect #whales in Antarctica - http://www.ifaw.org/united-kingdom/get-involved/protect-whales-antarctica pl. write to UK minister

Progressives: We’ve Never Heard Of This “Progressive” Group Backing Obama’s #TPP - http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/progressives-weve-never-heard-of-this-progressive-group-back whoops, getting desperate

#Copyright, #OpenAccess, and Human Rights - http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2015/03/13/copyright-open-access-and-human-rights/ good analysis of important new report

The FBI's Paranoia And Incompetence Threatens Free Speech - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150312/11522530304/fbis-paranoia-incompetence-threatens-free-speech.shtml mistaking Grozny for Mecca...

#ISDS must be replaced by a public court - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/trade-society/reding-private-justice-no-justice-isds-must-be-replaced-public-court-312892 yes - existing national courts: we don't need any new ones

Reda Report: Amendments to Salvage #DRM - http://www.april.org/en/reda-report-pitiful-shower-amendments-salvage-drm-digital-handcuffs "reject those which delete paragraph 24 or render it useless"

Copyright Policy and the Right to Science and Culture - http://infojustice.org/archives/34103 good summary

Years Of Brainwashing The Public Into Thinking Everything Creative Must Be 'Owned' Has Led To This New Mess - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150312/06330930299/years-brainwashing-public-into-thinking-everything-creative-must-be-owned-has-led-to-this-new-mess.shtml yup

The inhumane trade in European farm animals - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/agriculture-food/ending-cruelty-inhumane-trade-european-farm-animals-312866 "sentient beings" in EU; living lumps of meat outside it. unacceptable

Private copying levy in EU’s firing line - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/innovation-industry/private-copying-levy-eus-firing-line-312867 time to bin it

Věra Jourová: We will be strict with the US on Safe Harbour - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/infosociety/vera-jourova-we-will-be-strict-us-safe-harbour-312856 I'll believe it when I see it...

#Opensource offline map tool for Android - http://opensource.com/business/15/3/open-source-offline-mapping-tool nice

Why the Apple Watch will put the web out to pasture - http://qz.com/362263/why-the-apple-watch-will-put-the-web-out-to-pasture-once-and-for-all/ only for those who care nothing about #privacy and #freedom

UN Cultural Rights Rapporteur Delivers Report Condemning Prevailing #Copyright Laws - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150312/10173830303/un-cultural-rights-rapporteur-delivers-report-condemning-prevailing-copyright-laws.shtml important moment

Major fire breaks out at Battersea Arts Centre in London - http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/13/major-fire-at-battersea-arts-centre sad

Free Expression & The Internet: Watch The Copia Summit Roundtable Discussion Live - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150313/10405830312/free-expression-internet-watch-copia-summit-roundtable-discussion-live.shtml on now...

Ron Wyden: 'Plenty' Of Domestic Surveillance Programs Still Unexposed - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150312/12563530305/ron-wyden-plenty-domestic-surveillance-programs-still-unexposed.shtml just think about that...

Global carbon emissions due to energy stalled in 2014 - http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/03/global-carbon-emissions-due-to-energy-stalled-in-2014/ tiny bit of good news for a change; more needed

Nach BDI korrigiert auch Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft Falschinformationen über #TTIP - http://www.foodwatch.org/de/presse/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilung-nach-bdi-korrigiert-auch-initiative-neue-soziale-marktwirtschaft-falschinformationen-ueber-ttip-wirtschaftliche-effekte-zehn-mal-so-gross-dargestellt-wie-in-studien-eingeschaetzt-foodwatch-fordert-auch-korrekt (v @Liese_Mueller)

#Russia's #Surveillance State - http://www.worldpolicy.org/blog/2015/03/02/russias-surveillance-state important article: extremely detailed info #ru

Officials Upset Tech Companies Reluctant To Play Along With Administration's 'Information Sharing' Charade - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150308/17365530256/officials-upset-tech-companies-reluctant-to-play-along-with-administrations-information-sharing-charade.shtml