from the as-i-recall dept
5 Years In the past
This week in 2020, Portland, Maine handed a facial recognition ban that mentioned the town can fireplace staff who violate it, which could have been helpful in Seattle the place a police detective took Clearview for a spin and presumably violated native legal guidelines. The FBI pulled one other one among its manufacture-a-terrorist schemes, and was elsewhere in search of to carry out an intrusive search of a cellphone for proof it didn’t want. Nintendo was attempting to crack down on inventive makes use of of Animal Crossing, whereas the builders of Cyberpunk 2077 have been including a particular mode to assist streamers keep away from DMCA notices. And Comcast determined that the center of a pandemic was an excellent time to increase its bullshit utilization caps.
Ten Years In the past
Talking of Comcast, this week in 2015 they have been testing web neutrality by letting their very own streaming service bypass utilization caps, after which they wished everybody an early pleased new 12 months by asserting value hikes and new deceptive charges. The Telegraph revealed a particularly dumb article defending encryption by David Cameron’s former speechwriter, and Dianne Feinstein was flip-flopping on her earlier considerations about cybersecurity by calling for encryption backdoors, whereas it got here out that the “ISIS encryption coaching guide” about which a lot hay had been made was really a fairly generic pamphlet for journalists and activists.
Fifteen Years In the past
This week in 2010, we wrote about why voting for COICA was voting for censorship, and why adopting ACTA would enhance copyright infringement (not that this stopped the EU Parliament from rubber stamping their approval). Backlash was mounting towards the TSA, with the San Diego airport group arresting a person for refusing to be groped and claiming that recording the TSA safety course of is an arrestable offense too. Brokers determined to display the method for Congress to point out that it was no massive deal, which fully backfired, whereas the company was refusing to say if it had ever caught a terrorist on the premise that this was a state secret, and we wrote about how all this TSA nonsense was based mostly on the parable of “excellent safety”.
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