Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 22, 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: WhatsApp Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers; The internet isn’t free: Shutdowns, surveillance and algorithmic risks; GAO: ‘Digital footprints’ endanger the nation, military and personnel; Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship; and Unremovable AppCloud on Samsung Phones Sparks Privacy Fears.