This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readNov 16, 2022

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#20yrsago Visa claims to own dictionary definition of “visa” https://web.archive.org/web/20021118111338/https://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56432,00.html

#15yrsago House keeps AT&T on the hook for spying on America, Senate next? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/11/senate-judiciary-committee-passes-surveillance-bill-without-telecom-amnesty

#15yrsago Infringement Nation: we are all mega-crooks https://web.archive.org/web/20071127010626/http://www.turnergreen.com/publications/Tehranian_Infringement_Nation.pdf

#10yrsago Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: The perfect nerdish fantasy https://memex.craphound.com/2012/11/16/mr-penumbras-24-hour-bookstore-the-perfect-nerdish-fantasy/

#5yrsago Web analytics companies offer “replay sessions” that let corporations watch every click and keystroke for individual users https://www.wired.com/story/the-dark-side-of-replay-sessions-that-record-your-every-move-online/

#5yrsago Trump’s top economic advisor asks CEOs to raise hands if they’re going to use tax cuts to invest, boggled by no one raising hands https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/11/14/why-arent-the-other-hands-up-a-top-trump-advisers-startling-response-to-ceos-not-doing-what-hed-expect/

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