Alex Hern reports: E-cigarettes may be better for your health than normal ones, but spare a thought for your poor computer – electronic cigarettes have become the latest vector for malicious software, according to online reports. Many e-cigarettes can be charged over USB, either with a special cable, or by plugging the cigarette itself directly…
Category: Breaches
QA: Traffic offence photos breach privacy: Expert
The Peninsular reports: People being allowed to click photographs of traffic violations and forwarding them to Metrash2 is seen by many as a practice that can be best avoided as it can cause misunderstandings, fights and heartburn among individuals. It can also amount to breach of privacy of people and families. And such photographs can…
UK: Newcastle Journal editor fined £1,600 over paper’s breach of section 39 anonymity order
Press Gazette reports: The outgoing editor of the Journal in Newcastle has been fined £1,600 after his newspaper breached an anonymity order. Brian Aitken, who it was this week announced will be leaving the Journal, pleaded guilty to a charge of having breached the order in a report which appeared in the newspaper in May…
Uber’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
Andrea Peterson reports: In the four years that it grew from a start-up to a company valued at $18 billion, car hailing service Uber’s aggressive tactics have made the company a lot of enemies — local regulators, taxi drivers and some journalists among them. But no legal battle or protest caused the company as many public…