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: How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors; They See Your Photos; Agencies fall short on documenting AI acquisition best practices, GAO says; US Government Fails to Unmask Reddit User: Privacy Legal Battle; and A new cybercrime platform called ATHR can harvest credentials via fully automated voice phishing attacks that use both human operators and AI agents for the social engineering phase.

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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: AI is moving fast — and breaking things; Google’s Smart Glasses Can Create Fake Photos on the Fly; Microsoft Authenticator Flaw on Android, iOS Could Leak Login Codes for Millions; UPMC notifies patients of possible medical record access; and Robot Dogs Are Protecting Data Centers. Operators Are Seeing Payoffs.

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