Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 20, 2025
Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: NIST says that there are three main ways to sanitize data; Google misled users about their privacy and now owes them $425m, says court; USAi tool lets agencies test for AI biases, GSA official says; FBI warns of cybercriminals using fake FBI crime reporting portals; and Morgan Stanley fined $35m after hard drives sold with customer info still on them.