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. Four highlights from this week: Is the government listening to you through your phone? Here’s what a former CIA officer says; Latest Type of Mail Fraud Is Actually an Old-School Scam; Secret Service put protectees, employees at risk with mobile device security blunders; and White House App Uses Code From Tech Vendor Still Operating in Russia.

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