Saturday 16 November 2013

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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


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