131121

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 131120 - http://bit.ly/17PcM6g yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

#NHS charges - the Zombie policies walking into Downing Street? - http://bit.ly/1djFZOm idiocy: this just increase costs later on

Trade agreement threatens access to affordable medicines - http://bit.ly/I13ope #TPP will have blood on their hands...

No 10 pours cold water on claim David Cameron wants to 'get rid of green crap' - http://bit.ly/I13Rbc "greenest government ever"? hardly

"Giving rights to overseas companies that can never be changed regardless of #NZ's own needs is a big mistake" - http://bit.ly/1djLxbB #TPP

#TPP IP Chapter Available For Discussion And Annotation At RapGenius - http://bit.ly/19KhUbp this is what negotiators should have done

We are becoming police states. Everyone OK with that? - http://bit.ly/1bF4OgX speak up before it's too late #nsa #gchq

Falling Exports under Korea FTA - http://bit.ly/1c5MfUW #KORUS failed to deliver promised benefits: #TAFTA/#TTIP will be the same

Case for wider inquiry into surveillance growing stronger, says Nick Clegg - http://bit.ly/1aIHt0j to put it mildly #snowden

#TPP: probably the best set of consolidated links around - http://bit.ly/1jp9j3m exposes problems from key viewpoints

Les mails des eurodéputés ont été piratés par un hacker - http://bit.ly/I562La "met en cause le choix de #Microsoft" (v @manhack)#EU

US Working Overtime Behind Scenes To Kill UN Plan To Protect Online Privacy From Snooping - http://bit.ly/1bFaPu6 what moral high ground?

Automotive Linux Leaves Microsoft and Blackberry QNX in the Dust - http://bit.ly/18oDt5p ICYMI - another market dominated by #Linux

Launching the Open Speech Initiative - http://bit.ly/1aTCiaf great news #opensource

Watchdog demands #GCHQ report on NSA's UK data storage - http://bit.ly/1dkrBW6 Rifkind's credibility at stake: he must act

What #Mozilla is doing with its big pile of new money (Q&A) - http://cnet.co/1dku3vV good to see the results of the new google deal

How #TAFTA/#TTIP will affect the energy sector - http://bit.ly/1b9ZjMl #tarsands: "elephant in the room" - unfair to elephants, I think

The Global Open Data Initiative Needs Your Input - http://bit.ly/18SL60r needs more data, apparently... #opendata

Lawful Access is Back: Controversial Bill Returns Under the Guise of Cyber-Bullying Legislation - http://bit.ly/1fYjigd #canada

Giant Boeing Dreamlifter Lands at Wrong Airport - http://on.mash.to/1aJ2Oqo "airport does not have a long enough runway to allow safe takeoff"

14 MEPs emails intercepted by a hacker, thanks to Microsoft’s tech and lack of education - http://bit.ly/I5mx9W when will they learn?

#REACh is Largest Trade Barrier for US Chemical Manufg SMEs - http://bit.ly/1aTLR9e #TAFTA/#TTIP to get rid of EU #precautionaryprinciple?

 Plage in Australien: Scharfschützen erlegten 160.000 Kamele - http://bit.ly/1cHOduD incredible #AU

Inventor Of The Twitter Hashtag Explains Why He Didn't Patent It - http://read.bi/1bUv22B good answers, also the correct ones (v @Joscelyn)

#TPP provisions on Injunctions, are the TRIPS exceptions in or out? - http://bit.ly/1c6wsoP this is why we need public drafts

Corporations increasingly spying on nonprofits, group says - http://lat.ms/1jpHCaK the oppression gets worse (v @jamie_love)

German politicians to get encrypted phones - http://bit.ly/IirEmM great 4 them; but what about the other 80 million Germans? (v @declanm)

Is Google's Secretive Research Lab Working on Human-Dolphin Communication? - http://bit.ly/1fn5azL what would they say about #taiji?

US 'Intelligence' Boss Reveals 'Redacted' Date In The URL Of The File - http://bit.ly/1fn8jzl "intelligence" indeed...

Civil Society Groups Urge Trade Transparency for #TPP - http://bit.ly/18rjkeU " secrecy represents a failed strategy" (v @digiphile)

#LG promises to stop your Smart TV spying on you - http://engt.co/1jpRwcn fab; but how can be ever trust any of their other products again?

Wordpress Goes Legal: Sues Over Two Egregiously Bogus DMCA Notices That Were Designed To Censor - http://bit.ly/IiwFMa kudos

#Moby Not Just Giving Away His New Album For Free On BitTorrent, He's Okay With You Profiting From It - http://bit.ly/17R5Wx4 a true star

Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL - http://tcrn.ch/1c6U2BP llamas facing fate worse than death...

Investor Concerns About Fossil Fuels Are Growing - http://onforb.es/IiBdCb unburnable carbon is nothing but a liability

Illegally produced #palmoil is financed by European banks - http://bit.ly/I7jheE shame on #HSBC and #Rabobank

 #NSA-Affäre: Merkel und Gauck lassen US-Delegation abblitzen - http://bit.ly/18ruFM1 ouch, that's gotta hurt...

#Snowden & the future of our Communication Architecture - http://bit.ly/I7kouF great stuff; remarkably similar to: http://bit.ly/17gcdVT

Where Is The 'Free Trade' In The #TPP IP Chapter? - http://bit.ly/1h5DDTL key point: this is about extending monopolies

Film, TV, Other (c) Industries Add $1 Trillion to US Economy in 2012 - http://bit.ly/1aKetFo actually it's "other", not them: software etc. (v +Didier J. MARY)

on trial: Mystery company TQP re-writes the history of encryption - http://bit.ly/18bTLAL patent insanity once more

#TPP and the rights of indigenous peoples - http://bit.ly/17RN4hl important discussion of neglected area of #TPP's massive problems

"it's never "one guy." Not anymore." - http://bit.ly/1jqy13p hugely important point

131120

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 131119 - http://bit.ly/1asnN1s yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Resisting #Surveillance on a Unprecedented Scale III - http://bit.ly/187gHAZ the final part of my essay written for @netzpolitik

Indian Supreme Court seeks DoT’s reply on ways to block #pornography - http://bit.ly/1cG580A more people asking impossible #india

The days of believing spy chiefs who say 'Trust us' are over - http://bit.ly/1bPCImI "we would be deluded to accept any assurances"

Is the seed industry about to win a decisive victory in the battle over #EU food chain control? - http://bit.ly/HYAMgk insane

Here’s what we know about European collaboration with the #NSA - http://bit.ly/1bPDBf4 handy summary

Negotiating our health at #TPP talks - http://ab.co/1fghX6U as in negotiating away #Australia's health....

Discussions On The Abolition Of Patents In The UK, France, Germany And The Netherlands, From 1869 - http://bit.ly/1hWxPxi if only they had

Conservationists warn against tuna quota increase - http://bit.ly/1bCnjm3 greed & stupidity of some nations incredible

EU 'stigmatising' #Canada by labelling tar sands oil highly polluting - http://bit.ly/1hWyH5c idiotic: stigmatising pollution is point

#TPP Negotiations Move Further Underground in Salt Lake City - http://bit.ly/1dWHq1j something to hide, perhaps? #transparency

Leaked Memo Reveals U.S. Plan to Oppose Helping Poor Nations Adapt to Climate Change - http://bit.ly/18OItNa squabbling begins

Time 2 Stop!! How Fast Food Industry's Use of Palm Oil Is Killing Orangutans, & Exacerbating Climate Change - http://bit.ly/1dWJxlQ obscene

Will the EU Parliament Enable Discrimination Online or Uncompromising #NetNeutrality? - http://bit.ly/1asuMHv no prizes for guessing which

US and UK struck secret deal to allow #NSA to 'unmask' Britons' personal data - http://bit.ly/1cGTDpV betrayed by our own gov – lovely

Documents show Blair government let US spy on Britons - http://bit.ly/1bDBoja so will other UK media wake up now, please? #NSA #GCHQ

Copyright Maximalist Talking Points On Leaked #TPP Draft - http://bit.ly/I5k6of important analysis of truly desperate little document

Resisting #Surveillance on a Unprecedented Scale III - http://bit.ly/187gHAZ final part: what we can do about it #nsa #opensource

Important milk deal signed on sidelines of Chogm - http://bit.ly/17qArga seems that cows are running #NewZealand

Frederick Sanger - http://bit.ly/17MdTc5 amazing and amazingly modest example for us all...

#NSA Memo Shows Unlimited Access To Bulk Records Unnecessary To Keep US Safe From Terrorists - http://bit.ly/1bRL4u9 gosh, what a surprise

Microsoft Store sells ‘Keep Calm While Google Steals Your Data’ mugs - http://tnw.co/I3TnrL but MS gives zero-days to NSA so they steal it

After a year of threats, first suit is filed over hated “scanner patents” - http://bit.ly/1aS7jvn absurd at every level

#Winamp Shutting Down On December 20 - http://bit.ly/1bRNEQO won't somebody think of the llamas?

Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Vice President of Engineering - http://bit.ly/I04ams form an orderly queue #opensource

Judge Chin Reimagines "Fair Use" for the Internet Age - http://bit.ly/1cGWCi6 fascinating legal analysis

#CC Job Opportunity: Arab World Regional Coordinator - http://bit.ly/1ivGV1N pass it on

Throw off the spooks by disguising your web traffic - http://bit.ly/1ivHDMA can't come soon enough #nsa #gchq

Australian-Canadian Firm OceanaGold Bails Out Pacific Rim Mining: Deal means more punishment for El Salvador - http://bit.ly/1e03d8C

Cop Shoots Cuffed Teen In The Face With A Taser, Claims He 'Feared For His Safety' - http://bit.ly/1e04f4p (warning: graphic images)

When We Lose Antibiotics, Here’s Everything Else We’ll Lose Too - http://wrd.cm/I5qgEJ read this, then get very, very worried

Norway's Spy Boss Gives 'Least Untruthful' Answer About Sharing Phone Call Info With NSA, Before Correcting Himself - http://bit.ly/1fjnqKg

The #NSA scandal has detonated in #Australia - we can no longer look away - http://bit.ly/1e0achN as it was bound to...(v @pranesh_prakash)

EU Parliament VP: If you want true lobby policing, you need more resources - http://bit.ly/17Mmrjg let's give them then

TPP IP Chapter Leaks: U.S. Wants New Regulations for Country-Code Domain Names - http://bit.ly/1bDMLYr more #TPP insanity

U.N. Defends Banning Three Youth Activists While Allowing Fossil Fuel Firms to Sponsor Climate Talks - http://bit.ly/1e0d2TT good questions

#TPP: Hands off our right to share digital information - http://bit.ly/1cH13Jx good analysis: too right (v @MsLods)

Leaked #TPP Text Confirms Countries Had Plenty to Hide - http://bit.ly/1hY8tza well, of course

RT @iankatz1000 @avaragado Not tonight…we have done plenty of #NSA other nights >>oh, that's OK then - who cares that NSA spies on us brits?

#Barclays Bank ‘Helps’ Africa Lose More in Tax Avoidance Each Year than it Gains in Aid - http://bit.ly/17NYSBe no comment necessary

How Somebody Forced the World’s Internet Traffic Through Belarus and Iceland - http://dthin.gs/1b8QKRW whoa, so what's going on here?

#BP Hired Company To Troll Users Who Left Critical Comments - http://bit.ly/1fjvxXd a company as filthy as its chief product

With Repeated Reports Of Long-Term NSA Abuses, Does Anyone Actually Believe NSA Is Following The Law Today? - http://bit.ly/1b8RAxV not me

Just 90 companies caused two-thirds of man-made global warming emissions - http://bit.ly/I5w6Gq great: now we know who to sue...

131119

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 131118 - http://bit.ly/1aodOdz yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Bloquean Bit.ly en intento de censura en páginas sobre dólar paralelo - http://bit.ly/1cEyQDb #venezuela goes bonkers (v @jobliz)

What will #TPP mean for #copyright? - http://bit.ly/1efiSBy nothing good, you can be sure (v @DrRimmer)

"Reading IP provisions of the #TPP IP chapter leak is a maddening, dispiriting process" - http://bit.ly/I2hzeA good analysis (v @DrRimmer)

"if [the government] wins [ISDS case], it doesn’t have to pay the investors. To win is to not lose in reality" - http://bit.ly/1b50V9W #TPP

Resisting #Surveillance on a Unprecedented Scale II - http://bit.ly/19C4kXz second of three parts #gchq #snowden

100,000 Users Of Chinese Microblog Sina Weibo Punished For Violating 'Censorship Guidelines' - http://bit.ly/I2jUWI serious stuff #china

Asian countries battle IP ‘maximalism’ in leaked #TPP chapter - http://bit.ly/18Ljv13 can they keep it up, though?

#Microsoft's Intense Lobbying Works: Goodlatte To Drop Plan To Allow For Faster Review Of Bad Software Patents - http://bit.ly/1efmDHi

Court order that allowed #NSA surveillance is revealed for first time - http://bit.ly/1efmLXf sad stuff

482 of the Top500 supercomputers run #Linux - http://bit.ly/I0IGGt precisely 2 run Windows...

German parties agree to introduce quota for women on boards - http://bit.ly/1aOvafr UK should follow suit

Police are cracking down on students - http://bit.ly/18Lokr7 UK war on dissent continues - shameful

 The Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty is the complete opposite of 'free trade' - http://bit.ly/19Er1dD #TPP

USTR Lies: Says #TPP Is No Different Than US Law - http://bit.ly/HXR8Ge barefaced

Feds: Even Though We've Been Ordered To Reveal Secret Interpretation Of The PATRIOT Act, We're Not Going To Do That - http://bit.ly/1fenGdk

Tell us what you think of the Open Knowledge Foundation - http://bit.ly/1aPQtNN yeah, go on, tell them...

Swiss Lausanne piloting #opensource desktops - http://bit.ly/1fTht47 wise move

#LG Smart TVs logging USB filenames and viewing info to LG servers - http://bit.ly/17JJyea if confirmed, not looking good

131118

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 131117 - http://bit.ly/1inmh40 yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Free trade not a licence to rip off #Australia - http://bit.ly/1inmnIR strong editorial against horrors of #TPP (v @DrRimmer)

Secretive trade deal spells disaster for IP, copyright - http://bit.ly/1aX4cIC more doubts in #Australia (v @VictimsofDSTO)#TPP

Australia tried to monitor Indonesian president's phone - http://bit.ly/182BIN7 " “must have content” & be able to read encrypted messages"

US-Beamte überprüfen Reisende in Deutschland  - http://bit.ly/1inorAE overweening arrogance (v @superglaze)

#TPP, eine Internetbedrohung in der Tradition von #ACTA, #IPRED und anderen Abkürzungen - http://bit.ly/18I681M genau

New data science institute to help scholars harness ‘big data’ - http://bit.ly/1jg0EAb but will it be #opendata? (v @hjoseph @anjelikadeo)

Resisting #Surveillance on a Unprecedented Scale I - http://bit.ly/17gcdVT written for this: http://bit.ly/HDIWKW #snowden #nsa

"trade agreements deal with regulatory issues normally determined through public processes" - http://bit.ly/1an6Yop so must be public #TPP

FBI Stops Responding To The Most Prolific FOIA Filer, Because He Might Actually Learn Something - http://bit.ly/1cE6BEJ

the Surveillance Industry Index - http://bit.ly/1dPutGI "most comprehensive publicly available database on the private surveillance sector"

MPAA and RIAA Urge Government to Keep High Fines for Copyright Infringers - http://bit.ly/17Frs7X make idiotic argument about "investment"

worth reading again in light of #TAFTA/#TTIP lies being spread already how health & safety won't be compromised  - http://bit.ly/17XxuDG

USTR Insists Secret, MPAA-Backed #TPP Is 'Most Transparent Trade Negotiation In History'... From Hollywood Studio - http://bit.ly/1bKySv1

'expected' pilot whale kill in #Taiji cove - http://bit.ly/1hSZ0Jp "slowly bleed to death and drown in their own blood" #japan

NSA net-security sabotage means the end of US Internet "stewardship" - http://bit.ly/1gZ87af yup

Richard Stallman’s letter to Stratfor hacker’s judge demanding lesser sentence - http://bit.ly/17FvwoL bravo (v @schestowitz)

131117

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 131116 - http://bit.ly/1cBQ7No yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

#GCHQ Monitors Hotel Reservations to Track Diplomats - http://bit.ly/1fKVtsh fighting terrorism? not so much (v @superglaze)#surveillance

We Are in the Midst of Defeating the Largest Corporate Trade Agreement in History - http://bit.ly/1dH9UMH upbeat assessment of #TPP

EU, US say trade deal won't pander to big business - http://bit.ly/1gVxb1E not true if #ISDS is included: putting corporation above nation

Over 120,000 people said NO to Internet Censorship in the #TPP - http://bit.ly/1bvSTSu that's good, but many more needed

pic of the week: London sunset - http://bit.ly/HZvKkB (v @Londonist)

Mega EU-US trade talks moving ahead ‘step by step’ - http://bit.ly/17A3lYd slouching towards Bethelehm... #TAFTA/#TTIP

Getting the Dirt On Ancient Life With Coprolites - http://bit.ly/I8JOr8 ah, yes: coprolites...

World Bank: "flood damage for large coastal cities could cost $1 trillion a year" - http://bit.ly/1aymJrO unless #climatechange is tackled

#GCHQ-Spionage: "Alle Daten, alle Websites, alle E-Mails" - http://bit.ly/1bFcXVW fighting terrorism? I don't think so...

Growing Clamor About Inequities of Climate Crisis - http://nyti.ms/1gVJXxi @nytimes still feeble & mealy-mouthed about #climatechange

How Mobile Network Spying Works - http://bit.ly/17dju8L how #GCHQ has been targeting mobile phone company networks (v @koenrh)

Analysis of key copyright provisions in the #TPP - http://bit.ly/1bFsgOr "could result in a much lower threshold of criminality"

#NSA Asked #Linus to Install Backdoors into #Linux - http://bit.ly/1bFtnxH this is big: now confirmed by his father (v @schestowitz)

Visualizing Negotiating Positions in #TPP IP Chapter - http://bit.ly/1aiuVxa really fascinating & important work - & why we need drafts

#TAFTA/#TTIP Negotiators determined to transfer sovereignty 2 cos - http://bit.ly/18fymV7 key: "takes transferring sovereignty for granted"

EU-US Free Trade & the risks to the NHS - http://bit.ly/1fifVD7 good analysis: #ISDS would lock in #NHS privatisation forever #TAFTA/#TTIP

Home Office setback: can't destroy family by deporting US head-teacher as his British wife begins cancer treatment - http://bit.ly/1bRfuea

Water Shortages Could Dry Up Shale Gas Craze - http://onforb.es/HZUid9 people waking up to key problem with #fracking

Sticking to our guns over # only way to go - http://bit.ly/1bRJ4jD interesting NZ editorial on negotiations and their outcome

Peter Mandelson: a battering ram for big business - http://bit.ly/18H31qX great analysis of background to #ISDS in #TAFTA/#TTIP

#Whistleblowers: regulators of last resort - http://bit.ly/1hQog2X enhancing their protection is a key project for us now #nsa #gchq

The Soviet River Diversion That Decimated a Giant Lake and Condemned a Population - http://wrd.cm/IaqN7J such a shocking story #aral

EU angry as investment policy levels playing field - http://bit.ly/1f4Z4Uz shows true intent of "free trade" agreements #southafrica

Climate Deniers Must Pay $90,000 For ‘Not Acting Reasonably,’ Court Rules - http://bit.ly/1bS5b9r sounds pretty clement

 Failure of “Licenses for Europe” underlines the need for reform of the #EU #copyright framework - http://bit.ly/18H5T7b and how

131116

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 131115 - http://bit.ly/1fICnCY yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Health service: let's play Hunt the doctor - http://bit.ly/1awe8pN Jeremy Hunt puts the blame on everyone but himself #NHS

Online Retailer Says If You Give It A Negative Review It Can Fine You $3,500 - http://bit.ly/17xMbKG #Kleargear must be regretting this now

Eric Holder Doesn't See Any Basis To Prosecute Glenn Greenwald... For Now - http://bit.ly/1e9w6zJ not very reassuring... #snowden

Bolivia: indígena increpa a Insulza por situación de mapuches en Chile - http://bit.ly/1bMYaGW so what's going on here? #cl

TPP leak: what will the #TPP do to trans-pacific #copyright? - http://bit.ly/18cj6bu useful legal analysis

Concerns Over Role of Corporates at Climate Talks - http://bit.ly/1bu5XYJ big cos. want to profit from our misery (v @corporateeurope)

“Mistakes can happen, biases can appear, it’s trying to take it to neutral ground,” - http://ind.pn/1dCX0zb  EU weak justification for #ISDS

but ISDS tribunals can make mistakes, and have clear biases in favour of corps - but there's no appeal against their supranational decisions

STM publishers give Green Light for Text-and-Data Mining - http://bit.ly/1dDvT7a that's good, but still only non-commercial.... #openaccess

BGH abandons distinction between works of applied and purpose free art - http://bit.ly/19toFyi extending #copyright's reach yet further

 "“US oppose[s]” adding “#Chagas” to this list of exceptions" in #TPP - http://bit.ly/HWxISq staggering callousness for people of #chile

Preserving Zhuang: Audio Database Progress in Guangxi Province - http://bit.ly/1f09sN6 fascinating "Zhuang has long had a written script"

13 reasons not to start using #PGP - http://bit.ly/17BtcV5 yeah, sure, whatever: when you have something better to offer, then I'll listen

#Openaccess is now required by law in #Argentina - http://bit.ly/HWDC5T great news (v @piawaugh)

#FBI warns that #Anonymous has hacked US government sites for a year - http://bit.ly/1d5JEiB you mean: "Anonymous warns of FBI attacks"?

A digital future needs real #netneutrality - http://bit.ly/1jcyDcT @MarietjeSchaake gets it: "actually enshrining net neutrality in law"

#Climatechange pledges: rich nations face fury over moves to renege - http://bit.ly/HSl1HR selfish, short-sighted & stupid moves

131115

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 131114 - http://bit.ly/1aX2ve6 yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD - lots on big #TPP leak

#Australie: Our Future Is At Risk - Disclose The #TPP Now - http://bit.ly/17v8Ebm "Christmas has come early this year for big corporations"

"Europe #Commons is a catalogue of civic software & services across EU that help govs work better" - http://bit.ly/1dwRm1r (v @mbauwens)

When trade agreements threaten sovereignty: #Australia beware - http://bit.ly/1bJnY6Z #TPP: #ISDS puts corporation above nation: bin it

US, #Australia isolated in #TPP negotiations - http://bit.ly/1aX3VoZ @wikileaks' view of its, er, leak

Secretive trade deal spells disaster for #AU IP, copyright - http://bit.ly/1aX4cIC "subject to worst aspects of the US #copyright regime"

Max Planck Institute Principles for Intellectual Property Provisions in Bilateral and Regional Agreements - http://bit.ly/I2KhuW

End-To-End Encryption Isn't Just About Privacy, But Security - http://bit.ly/1eTuqNA good point #NSA #surveillance

How a Trade Pact Could Harm the Environment - http://nyti.ms/1eTuHAf #ISDS will allow companies to sue over better protection

#TPP and #Copyright - http://bit.ly/1bsaCKx clear & concise summary; recommended

Busca EU limitar acceso a Internet en el Pacífico - http://bit.ly/176R4NC #mexico starts to wake up to  #TPP

Royalty Collection Agency #SABAM Sued By Belgian Government Over 'Piracy License' Plans - http://bit.ly/176RhAC the biter bit #be

C.I.A. Collecting Data on International Money Transfers, Officials Say - http://nyti.ms/1fG0diR & so it goes on #surveillance

EU conflict minerals law hangs in the balance - http://bit.ly/19popAe lobbyists strike again?

RT @EU_TTIP_team EU #TTIP chief negotiator Ignacio Garcia Bercero "regulatory component at the heart of #TTIP negotiations">>you bet

US Court rules Dept. of Homeland Security must reveal ‘internet kill switch’ protocol - http://bit.ly/I35LYt interesting... (v @AdV007)

MT @EU_TTIP_team EU #TTIP chief negotiator encourages stakeholders 2 engage with negotiators & share views/information>>nice sense of humour

#Microsoft Admits Its Datacenters Are Wide Open To NSA Attacks - http://bit.ly/HWY47c & give zero-days to #NSA: why does anyone use them?

The #TPP and Hollywood’s Holy Grail - http://bit.ly/19pG1vM good analysis of awful ISP provisions pushed by US/AU (v @ralpost)

Owen calls for release of Blair & Bush #Iraq evidence - http://bit.ly/1atSORG "Blair's stance on the material 'an affront' "; too right

Does pursuing investment protection in #TTIP signal more transatlantic mistrust? - http://bit.ly/1gQUGZU good analysis. #ISDS must just go

Access Info and ALTER EU launch a petition calling for full EU #lobby #transparency - http://bit.ly/1atU5rL important stuff

Competition is killing the #NHS, for no good reason but ideology - http://bit.ly/17XbHPk read the facts; get angry...

"Momentum is growing in the campaign to stop #TPP" - http://bit.ly/1fGjeBD good summary of growing resistance, now coalescing around leak

Lebensmittelbetrug in Europa weitet sich aus - http://bit.ly/1bJYkPz why we can't let #TAFTA/#TTIP water down food & safety protections

The TPP IP Chapter Leaks: #TPP and #CETA May Conflict on Geographical Indications - http://bit.ly/18zRmdl interesting point #GI

#Linux Voice - http://bit.ly/177k2go "new Free Software and Linux magazine that gives profits back to the community" #indiegogo

USTR Froman Pitches Benefits Of #TPP For Japan-US Business - http://bit.ly/17Xfb4z good for business, perhaps, but awful for the public

#TPP & #TAFTA/#TTIP seem to be based on some "trickle-down" idea: rich get lots of money, poor get some too as a result. but that's rubbish

there's no attempt 2 justify #TAFTA/#TTIP in terms of public benefit beyond claiming families 500euros "richer" - but only with deregulation

and even then, it's not clear how families get those 500 euros.  I suspect it's an average, that hides vast profits going to big business

EU-US trade talks threaten citizens, environment & democracy - http://bit.ly/17vMUfr good to see #FoE has spotted #ISDS danger #TAFTA/#TTIP

#TPP 'A Substantial Threat To Australian Sovereignty' - http://bit.ly/17ybhhM lots of good points here (v @piecritic)#AU

Consumers were right to be worried, but can the #TPP be redeemed? - http://bit.ly/HQfnpO some interesting points

Europäischer Datenschutzbeauftragter: Scharfe Kritik an Netzneutralitätsvorschlag der EU-Kommission - http://bit.ly/1cvVVIb

Sammelband: Überwachtes Netz - http://bit.ly/HDIWKW warning: may contain nuts (me...) #snowden

An eBook with #DRM is no book, says French national assembly - http://bit.ly/1abXaNX "a book is something that can be borrowed"

Garcia Bercero EU TTIP negotiator: "importance of stakeholder engagement and transparency" - except the public, of course...

Dan Mullaney US TTIP negotiator: going on about #openness and #transparency - ironic the total secrecy of the negotiations for public

Dan Mullaney US TTIP negotiator: "nothing will undermine high standard" of public safety, health etc - yeah, we'll see...

Dan Mullaney US TTIP negotiator: "broad stakeholder input been hallmark of this negotation" - rubbish, utter rubbish

Garcia Bercero EU TTIP negotiator: "access to anyone who wants to discuss with anyone" - what, including the public? I doubt it...

Dan Mullaney US TTIP negotiator: "concerted effort to solicit broad range of views - from public? hardly

 Dan Mullaney US TTIP negotiator: "hundreds of meetings with stakeholders" - yes 100s of companies, not NGOS

MT @EU_TTIP_team EU #TTIP negotiator: we follow a firm policy of engaging with all stakeholders >>well, apart from the public, of course

MT @EU_TTIP_team We're not in business of putting into question right to regulate - EU #TTIP chief negotiator >>if it's in favour of corps

Bercero EU TTIP negotiator: "ISDS is something that has to be in line with respect to right to regulate": easy you regulate, & get sued

Mullaney US TTIP negotiator: wants to apply FTA screw: TAFTA/TTIP has to have everything previous FTAs had

"transparency" of #ISDS is irrelevant provided national court systems are transparent - it's a red herring

chemical regulations: REACH and TOSCA v different - no question of harmonising downards or upwards; mutual recognition not an option

TSA's $1 Billion 'Behavioral Detection' Program Only Slightly More Accurate Than A Coin Flip - http://bit.ly/18Av4bw expensive coin

Why Trade Deals are Privatising Government - http://huff.to/1bAaoo7 good post on how #ISDS would harm UK - and EU #TAFTA/#TTIP

Mistaking Omniscience for Omnipotence - http://bit.ly/1eVgXoA big point: mass #surveillance doesn't help, & probably harms (v @rassina)

de Gucht: "#TTIP will also be a gift to the world" - http://bit.ly/1ig7UOP I agree - in German (http://www.dict.cc/deutsch-englisch/Gift.html)

Open Data Bonanza - http://bit.ly/1auxJqj " an astonishing week for #opendata"

Data Expedition: Investigate the Extractive Industries of #Nigeria - http://bit.ly/1dz2L0J great use of #opendata

“#AU consumers have been betrayed. The intellectual property chapter of #TPP is a monster" - http://bit.ly/1e889c1 chorus of disapproval

5 key questions – & answers – about leaked #TPP text - http://wapo.st/1e88IT9 "increase Congressional opposition to extending Fast Track"

Consumers' digital rights threatened by #TPP - http://bit.ly/18AIVyn "no justification to change IP laws in opaque & unaccountable fashion"

 Illegale Kopien: Gerichte erschweren Geschäft mit Massenabmahnungen - http://bit.ly/1igiqpi long overdue

A Wired Ocean? How Big Data Is Saving Marine Predators - http://onforb.es/1bKTDoD interesting, hopeful

US Senators seek to make college textbooks affordable and open - http://bit.ly/1hLEH0C nice #CC-BY

"lengths US will take to crush dissent and punish challenges to the corporatist #surveillance state" - http://bit.ly/1bsXUv4 (v @Smaurizi)

Top Secret Trade Deal #TPP: It Is What We Expected - http://bit.ly/1auOUI9 "the whole thrust of the chapter is to increase protections"

The internet won't forget Cameron's lies, and neither will the British people - http://bit.ly/1cwMAzX nicely angry #tories

Unitaid concerned that #tpp negotiations undermine public health goals - http://bit.ly/19qHrpZ "foreign companies are allowed to sue a gov"

"US is negotiating for IP provisions that it knows it could not achieve through an open democratic process" - http://bit.ly/17XZCtc #TPP

"Nothing we do will undermine high standards of public health & safety & consumer protection" - http://bbc.in/17Y0qhH #chlorinechickens

Warner Bros: Our False #DMCA Takedowns Are Not a Crime - http://bit.ly/1dzMxo0 strange how it never is for them, but always is for public

The MPAA's Plan To Piss Off Young Moviegoers And Make Them Less Interested In Going To Theaters - http://bit.ly/17Y13YA such cluelessness

UK's reputation is damaged by reaction to #Snowden, says UN official - http://bit.ly/1ja2UJa "political fallout in UK was unacceptable."

#TPP "revelan una clara intención por restringir la capacidad de los estados para regular" - http://bit.ly/17zr2oK long, thorough piece #mx

#TPP draft: US reasserts its role as a world’s schoolyard bully - http://bit.ly/18boxrd "asserting trade monopolies held by the US"

Rechazo a que México se una al pacto para controlar Internet - http://bit.ly/1bB57ww "El gobierno mexicano no debe comprometerse" #mx #TPP