Month: November 2021

Mobile Food Pantry A Success!

#Stratford CT-- Mayor Laura R. Hoydick gave thanks to the hard work of many volunteers, we were able to serve 190 families in the mobile food pantry last Friday. This was a true collaboration, with folks from Senior and Community Services, Sterling House, the Stratford Y, Traffic Control, and the Recreation Department pitching in. We will be back next month, on Friday, December 3 from 3-4 PM at Birdseye for another drive thru pantry!

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PROMOTING APP STORE COMPETITION

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Amid building momentum to rein in Big Tech’s anticompetitive practices, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) announced growing bipartisan support for the Open App Markets Act, which would set fair, clear, and enforceable rules to protect competition and strengthen consumer protections within the app market. The legislation, first introduced in August along with Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), was recently co-sponsored by U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Two companies, Google and Apple, have gatekeeper control of the two dominant mobile operating systems and their app stores. Google and Apple’s dominance allows them to exclusively dictate the terms of the app market, inhibiting competition and restricting consumer…

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City Of Bridgeport To Observe Veterans Day

BRIDGEPORT, CT – The City of Bridgeport offices will be closed to observe Veterans Day. Additionally, residents are advised of the following holiday schedule for sanitation, recycling, brown bag collection, the transfer station, and City COVID-19 testing. Sanitation and Recycling pick-up routes Veterans Day sanitation and recycling pick-up will remain on schedule, Thursday routes will not be affected by the holiday. Brown Bag collection Brown bag collection is happening on your Recycling Day. Collection will be delayed on Veterans Day with Thursday routes to be picked up on Friday. *If pick-up is delayed by more than one day, do not remove bags from the curb—the public facilities crew will service your neighborhood as soon as possible. Transfer Station Closed Thursday, November 11th (Veterans Day) Reopens Wednesday, November 12th *City of…

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Data Breach Warning

Attorney General William Tong urged Robinhood users to exercise additional caution following a data breach that exposed millions of customer names and email addresses. The online stock trading platform confirmed today that a hacker tricked a customer service representative over the phone into turning over access to Robinhood’s customer support systems. That information gave the hacker access to email addresses for five million people, and the full names of two million people. The hacker then demanded a ransom payment from Robinhood. “Data breaches, particularly those involving ransom demands, are a ubiquitous modern threat to businesses and consumers. The Robinhood hacker will likely now use the email addresses and names they have harvested to send phishing emails to try to extract…

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