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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 151115 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/11/151115.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page

Germany says it will (mostly) stop spying on EU citizens and institutions - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/11/germany-says-it-will-mostly-stop-spying-on-eu-citizens-and-institutions/ as UK ramps up powers to spy on everyone

#SafeHarbour 2.0 framework begins to capsize as January deadline nears - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/11/safe-harbour-2-0-framework-begins-to-capsize-as-january-deadline-nears/ <insert alternative metaphor here>

As Predicted: Encryption Haters Are Already Blaming Snowden (?!?) For The Paris Attacks - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151115/23360632822/as-predicted-encryption-haters-are-already-blaming-snowden-paris-attacks.shtml #crypto

Another exoplanet weather report: 8,500 km/h winds - http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2015/11/another-exoplanet-weather-report-8500-kmhour-winds/ this is very clever science

Pure Copyfraud: Anne Frank Foundation Trying To Pretend Her Father Wrote Her Diary... To Extend Its #Copyright - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151114/00374832816/legal-fight-brewing-over-who-is-author-diary-anne-frank-thanks-to-copyright.shtml

Italian court rules modchips are primarily used to play pirated games - http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2015/11/italian-court-rules-modchips-are-primarily-used-to-play-pirated-games/ #it

Gates Foundation would be $1.9bn better off if it had divested from fossil fuels - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/16/gates-foundation-divested-fossil-fuels-would-be-19bn-better-off so much for his supposed acumen

Scientist Bans Use Of His Software By 'Immigrant-Friendly' Countries, So Journal Retracts Paper About His Software - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151113/04243532806/scientist-bans-use-his-software-immigrant-friendly-countries-so-journal-retracts-paper-about-his-software.shtml

Pathological: Surveillance State Defenders Use Their Own Failure In Paris To Justify Mass Surveillance - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151116/10582132824/pathological-surveillance-state-defenders-use-their-own-failure-paris-to-justify-mass-surveillance.shtml

#TPP: An Assessment of Commitments and Trade Agreement Enforcement - http://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/TPP-Enforcement-Analysis-Nov2015.pdf  "will detrimentally affect the environment"

"biggest prob. not shortage of information about suspects but lack of capacity 2 process that information" - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/16/french-and-belgian-intelligence-knew-paris-attackers-had-jihadi-backgrounds #Paris

as last tweet reinforces, the last thing intelligence services need is more info: adding "hay" to the stack just makes things worse...

Biologists race to save fish from Brazil river contaminated by dam collapse - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/16/biologists-relocate-fish-brazil-river-dam-collapse time 4 enormous fines on @bhpbilliton

Wikileaks has made full text of #TPP searchable including annexes - https://www.wikileaks.org/tpp-final/

After Paris Attacks, Here’s What the CIA Director Gets Wrong About Encryption - http://www.wired.com/2015/11/paris-attacks-cia-director-john-brennan-what-he-gets-wrong-about-encryption-backdoors/ last quote from this piece