This day in history

2007, 2012, 2017.

#15yrsago Airport cops’ database includes your reading material https://www.wired.com/2007/09/u-s-airport-screeners-are-watching-what-you-read/

#15yrsago MediaDefender sends takedowns for leaked mail, gets savagely taunted https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2007/09/p2p-sites-ridicule-mediadefender-takedown-notices-in-wake-of-e-mail-leak/

#15yrsago Harvard bookstore: Our prices are “property” https://web.archive.org/web/20071027060406/https://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=519564

#10yrsago Thin-skinned, plagiarizing Philippines Senator criminalizes “libel” with last minute stealth-attack on cybercrime bill https://www.raissarobles.com/2012/09/18/who-inserted-that-libel-clause-in-the-cybercrime-law-at-the-last-minute/

#10yrsago Court to hear argument on the privacy implications of “junk” DNA databases https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/09/wednesday-hearing-9th-circuit-tackles-dna-privacy

#10yrsago HOWTO be a good commenter https://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/09/18/how-to-be-a-good-commenter/

#5yrsago Vancouver housing co-op rescinds family’s apartment because unborn child is a girl https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/go-public-co-op-apartment-unborn-baby-1.4287464