Margaret Harding and Bob Bauder report: A city administration that prides itself on transparency and openness said Wednesday it supports a message to police officers to zip their lips or face discipline. Pittsburgh police Chief Cameron McLay ordered officers and other police employees this week to sign a “memorandum of individual responsibility” in the presence…
Category: Breaches
How Verizon and Turn Defeat Browser Privacy Protections
Jacob Hoffman-Andrews writes: Verizon advertising partner Turn has been caught using Verizon Wireless’s UIDH tracking header to resurrect deleted tracking cookies and share them with dozens of major websites and ad networks, forming a vast web of non-consensual online tracking. Explosive research from Stanford security expert Jonathan Mayer shows that, as we warned in November, Verizon’s UIDH header is…
NZ: Apology over privacy breach
Peter de Graaf reports: The Northland Regional Council has been told to apologise to bleach attack victim Mike Nager for accessing text messages he sent on his private cellphone to a former employer. Read more on New Zealand Herald.
Ca: Peladeau defends security breach
Angelica Montgomery reports: Pierre Karl Peladeau says he did not blunder when he posted Philippe Couillard’s personal address and phone number on his Facebook page, which he has since taken down at the request of the premier’s security team. The Parti Quebecois leadership hopeful says he was merely distributing information anyone could have pulled up from…