170731

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 170730 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2017/07/170730.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

EU court bans logging in Poland’s primeval forest - http://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/eu-court-bans-logging-in-polands-primeval-forest/ #poland's environmental vandalism

Brompton Electric bicycle - https://www.brompton.com/Brompton-Electric nice idea, looks at bit pricey, though…

“What advancements are we making impossible today, at the society level, by creating a mass #surveillance society” - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/07/without-privacy-a-society-cannot-advance/

Snapp: how Tehran’s answer to Uber is changing how people travel, and live - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jul/31/snapp-how-tehran-answer-to-uber-is-changing-how-people-travel-and-live fascinating stuff… #iran

Transatlantic #dataflows under renewed threat following top EU court’s ruling - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/07/transatlantic-data-flows-renewed-threat-following-top-eu-courts-ruling/ #PNR hits privacy troubles… #CA

#Poland vows to continue logging in Białowieża forest despite court ban - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/31/poland-continue-logging-biaowieza-forest-despite-eu-court-ban shame on Polish government

Democracy is dying – and it’s startling how few people are worried - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/31/democracy-dying-people-worried-putin-erdogan-trump-world true and true

Australian Prosecutors Want To Make It Illegal To Refuse To Turn Over Passwords To Law Enforcement - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170726/18443537869/australian-prosecutors-want-to-make-it-illegal-to-refuse-to-turn-over-passwords-to-law-enforcement.shtml just as in UK

Suicides of nearly 60,000 Indian farmers linked to #climatechange, study claims - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/31/suicides-of-nearly-60000-indian-farmers-linked-to-climate-change-study-claims sadly, just the start