This day in history

2011, 2016, 2020

#10yrsago Steven Levy on Facebook’s ironic privacy charge against Google https://www.wired.com/2011/05/facebook-privacy-problems/

#10yrsago DHS’s “Secure Communities” program will deport battered woman for calling 9–1–1 on her abuser https://web.archive.org/web/20110514142235/http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2011/05/isaura_garcia_battered_secure.php

#10yrsago TSA: we’ll search your baby and it will make the country safer https://loweringthebar.net/2011/05/tsa-says-baby-frisking-justified.html

#5yrsago Clicking “Buy now” doesn’t “buy” anything, but people think it does https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2778072

#1yrago Senate Dems want to ban internet disconnection https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/13/malwaretech/#sanders-wyden-merkley

#1yrago NSO Group tried to sell malware to US law enforcement https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/13/malwaretech/#nso-group

#1yrago Feds want national snitchlines for bosses whose workers don’t want to die https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/13/malwaretech/#snitchlines

#1yrago How Marcus Hutchins saved the world and lived to tell the tale https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/13/malwaretech/#malwaretech