Saturday, 6 June 2015

150605


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 150604 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.se/2015/06/150604.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page


Edward Snowden: The World Says No to #Surveillance - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/opinion/edward-snowden-the-world-says-no-to-surveillance.html wow, a Snowden editorial in @nytimes; how times have changed


Distorted facts, blatant lies: business group's big push to get #ISDS through - http://ttip2015.eu/blog-detail/blog/BUSINESSEUROPE%20ISDS.html outrageous; pro-#TTIP camp desperate

Netflix Chief: Piracy Prepared Internet Users For Us - http://torrentfreak.com/netflix-chief-piracy-prepared-internet-users-for-us-150605/ of course, it's simple: "piracy" is actually just marketing...

American and German unions reject #ISDS - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/trade-society/american-and-german-unions-reject-isds-315146 massive resistance on both sides of Atlantic #TTIP

OPM hack: China blamed for massive breach at US federal agency - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/04/us-government-massive-data-breach-employee-records-security-clearances er, maybe the #NSA shouldn't have done this to China

Berners-Lee Urges Britons To Fight The Snooper's Charter, But For One UK Tech Company It's Too Late - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150603/10525231208/berners-lee-urges-britons-to-fight-snoopers-charter-one-uk-tech-company-too-late.shtml #surveillance


Privacy Is Not a Barrier to Trade - http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/06/trade_in_services_agreement_could_change_the_global_internet.html despite what trade agreements would have us believe #TTIP #TPP #TISA


Lange: I want citizens & SMEs to benefit from #TTIP, not BusinessEurope - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/trade-society/lange-i-want-citizens-and-smes-benefit-ttip-not-businesseurope-315167 "not accept any private arbitration" #ISDS

#TTIP: The elephant in the room - http://classonline.org.uk/blog/item/ttip-the-elephant-in-the-room great analysis of why #ISDS is simply unjust

#Microsoft opens EU “Transparency Centre” to allay fears over #NSA backdoors - http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2015/06/microsoft-opens-eu-transparency-centre-to-allay-fears-over-nsa-backdoors/ but still not as open as #opensource

Top FBI Official Says Tech Companies Need To 'Prevent #Encryption Above All Else' - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150604/17404531229/top-fbi-official-says-tech-companies-need-to-prevent-encryption-above-all-else.shtml staggering demonisation

Confidential USTR Emails Show Close Industry Involvement In #TPP Negotiations - http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/06/05/confidential-ustr-emails-show-close-industry-involvement-in-tpp-negotiations/ great FOI work (v @mgeist)

interesting US survey on trade et al. - http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/03/business/income-inequality-workers-rights-international-trade-poll.html only 30% in favour of free trade; 42% in favour of Fast Track... #TPP #TTIP

First Victory for Citizens against Surveillance: French Military Planning Act will go before Constitutional Court! - https://www.laquadrature.net/en/first-victory-for-citizens-against-surveillance-french-military-planning-act-before-constitutional-c

HSBC money-laundering procedures 'have flaws too bad to be revealed' - http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/05/hsbc-money-laundering-procedures-flaws-too-bad-to-be-revealed not just too big to fail, too bad to fail

#ISDS: #FR proposals for a permanent international investment arbitration court - http://www.borderlex.eu/paris-proposals-permanent-investor-arbitration-court/ a pointless bodge (v @StevePeers)


Thursday, 4 June 2015

150604


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 150603 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.se/2015/06/150603.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page

Sign Of The Times: Warrant Canary Management Software Is Now A Thing - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150529/07473531147/sign-times-warrant-canary-management-software-is-now-thing.shtml what a world we live in...

Stop criminalising Hackney's rough sleepers - https://www.change.org/p/hackney-council-stop-criminalising-hackney-s-rough-sleepers how can people be so callous?

House Overwehelmingly Passes Amendments Blocking Funding For Undermining Encryption - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150603/17332431213/house-overwehelmingly-passes-amendments-blocking-funding-undermining-encryption.shtml nice move

Why #China has the upper hand in the South China Sea - http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/06/03/how-u-s-dependence-on-chinese-goods-invites-beijing-adventurism/ & why #TPP is exactly wrong as a response #geopolitics

France to boost uptake of free software in government - https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/143610 that's good


What The Oracle-Google Copyright Fight Has To Do With #Klingon... And Lots Of Other Innovations - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150603/16584831212/what-oracle-google-copyright-fight-has-to-do-with-klingon-lots-other-innovations.shtml intriguing


Wednesday, 3 June 2015

150603


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 150602 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.se/2015/06/150602.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page

from last year, but interesting: Sinn Fein's analysis of #TTIP's (negative) impact on Ireland - http://www.sinnfein.ie/files/2014/TTIP_Final_Doc_Small.pdf #ISDS

Urge the South African Government to Take Action to Halt the Catastrophic Levels of Rhino Poaching - http://www.thepetitionsite.com/875/726/758/urge-the-south-african-government-to-take-action-to-halt-catastrophic-levels-of-rhino-poaching/ depressing

WikiLeaks Wants To Crowdsource $100K Reward For Leak Of #TPP Text, As Doubts Grow About Agreement's Value - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150602/08461231186/wikileaks-wants-to-crowdsource-100k-reward-leak-tpp-text-as-doubts-grow-about-agreements-value.shtml #china

Kim Dotcom Thwarts Huge U.S. Government Asset Grab - http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-thwarts-huge-u-s-govt-asset-grab-150603/ nice win for him

Report: EU flexes #antitrust muscles to tackle Hollywood’s territorial licensing - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/06/report-eu-flexes-antitrust-muscles-to-tackle-hollywoods-territorial-licensing/ #geoblocking still a problem

#CETA is good for small businesses on both sides of the Atlantic - http://business.financialpost.com/entrepreneur/cfib/ceta-is-good-for-small-businesses-on-both-sides-of-the-atlantic pity it is so awful for the public (v @StuJT)

#NHS regulators to take over health services in 3 English regions - http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/03/nhs-regulators-to-take-over-health-services-in-three-english-regions "success regime" - you can't make this stuff up

Report: Logging companies plundering Congo's rainforest - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/global-europe/report-logging-companies-plundering-congos-rainforest-315093 come on, EU and China: sort this

EU once again fails to deliver on #NetNeutrality - http://www.openforumeurope.org/press-room/press-releases/OFE_PR_030615_final.pdf Council to blame again,@Europarl_EN standing up for public

big: important new #TISA leaks from @wikileaks - https://wikileaks.org/tisa/ - get digging, lots of stuff, lots of bad stuff...

WikiLeaks releases secret #TISA docs: more evil sibling of TTIP & TPP - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/06/wikileaks-releases-secret-tisa-docs-the-more-evil-sibling-of-ttip-and-tpp/ kills EU data protection, & #freesw mandates


Tuesday, 2 June 2015

150602


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 150601 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/150601_49.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page

What if Cameron is an evil genius? - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/01/david-cameron-moriarty-downing-street-radical-thatcher "bored viceroy engaged in handover of power from gov. to corporations" #TTIP


Global Apollo programme seeks to make clean energy cheaper than coal - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/02/apollo-programme-for-clean-energy-needed-to-tackle-climate-change let's do it

EU arts policies could lead to ISDS lawsuits, admits German government - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/06/eu-arts-policies-could-lead-to-isds-lawsuits-admits-german-government/ pl. tell MEPs about this - why #ISDS must go

MEPs call for safeguard clause in #TTIP to protect EU farmers - http://www.bilaterals.org/?meps-call-for-safeguard-clause-in pity the US will never agree to that...

Secret report urges treaty forcing US web firms' cooperation in data sharing - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/02/web-firms-data-sharing-secret-treaty allegedly; we'll probably never know

Study: The TSA's Security Theater Troupes Missed 95% Of Smuggled Weapons And Explosives - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150602/05474131176/study-tsas-security-theater-troupes-missed-95-smuggled-weapons-explosives.shtml great headline

USA Freedom Act Passes As All Of Mitch McConnell's Bad Amendments Fail - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150602/13191331195/usa-freedom-act-passes-as-all-mitch-mcconnells-bad-amendments-fail.shtml it's a start; more than we get in the UK...


150601


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 150531 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/05/150531_31.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page

UK police makes a metadata request every two minutes; 93% are approved - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/06/uk-police-makes-a-metadata-request-every-two-minutes-93-are-approved/ but they want even more? #surveillance

CIA Boss Claims That Merely Debating Surveillance Is Helping The Terrorists - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150531/20312631166/cia-boss-claims-that-merely-debating-surveillance-is-helping-terrorists.shtml yeah, right


The technical advances that could make wind power viable everywhere - http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/06/making-wind-power-work-even-in-low-wind-locations/ interesting, hopeful stuff

US and EU consumers urgently call for more transparent US-EU free trade negotiations - http://tacd.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/TACD-letter-to-President-Obama.pdf #TTIP

MEPs’ #TTIP vote shows ‘lack of trust’ in Europe’s courts - http://www.transportenvironment.org/news/meps%E2%80%99-ttip-vote-shows-%E2%80%98lack-trust%E2%80%99-europe%E2%80%99s-courts exactly: no wonder European project is in trouble...




150601


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 150531 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/05/150531_31.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page

UK police makes a metadata request every two minutes; 93% are approved - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/06/uk-police-makes-a-metadata-request-every-two-minutes-93-are-approved/ but they want even more? #surveillance

CIA Boss Claims That Merely Debating Surveillance Is Helping The Terrorists - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150531/20312631166/cia-boss-claims-that-merely-debating-surveillance-is-helping-terrorists.shtml yeah, right


The technical advances that could make wind power viable everywhere - http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/06/making-wind-power-work-even-in-low-wind-locations/ interesting, hopeful stuff

US and EU consumers urgently call for more transparent US-EU free trade negotiations - http://tacd.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/TACD-letter-to-President-Obama.pdf #TTIP

MEPs’ #TTIP vote shows ‘lack of trust’ in Europe’s courts - http://www.transportenvironment.org/news/meps%E2%80%99-ttip-vote-shows-%E2%80%98lack-trust%E2%80%99-europe%E2%80%99s-courts exactly: no wonder European project is in trouble...




150601


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 150531 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/05/150531_31.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page

UK police makes a metadata request every two minutes; 93% are approved - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/06/uk-police-makes-a-metadata-request-every-two-minutes-93-are-approved/ but they want even more? #surveillance

CIA Boss Claims That Merely Debating Surveillance Is Helping The Terrorists - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150531/20312631166/cia-boss-claims-that-merely-debating-surveillance-is-helping-terrorists.shtml yeah, right


The technical advances that could make wind power viable everywhere - http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/06/making-wind-power-work-even-in-low-wind-locations/ interesting, hopeful stuff

US and EU consumers urgently call for more transparent US-EU free trade negotiations - http://tacd.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/TACD-letter-to-President-Obama.pdf #TTIP

MEPs’ #TTIP vote shows ‘lack of trust’ in Europe’s courts - http://www.transportenvironment.org/news/meps%E2%80%99-ttip-vote-shows-%E2%80%98lack-trust%E2%80%99-europe%E2%80%99s-courts exactly: no wonder European project is in trouble...