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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 20, 2026

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: Worries mount about another state AI law preemption; Meta Tested Military Facial Recognition for Smart Glasses; Signal Veterans Want to Encrypt Slack, Google Docs, and Basically Every Other App; A Popular Streaming Service May Owe You $2,500; and Anthropic suspends top AI models after U.S. export control order.

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Subjects: AI, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Social Media, United States Law

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 6, 2026

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: One company may know everything about you; Fake ChatGPT download site infects Windows and Mac users with malware; Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts; Apple Is Officially Coming for Meta’s Privacy-Invading Lunch With Its Own Smart Glasses in Late 2027; and FBI Tracks ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ Amid Growing AI Backlash.

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Subjects: AI, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 23, 2026

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: OpenAI Shared Your Chats with Meta & Google, Lawsuit Claims; FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers; YouTube Opens AI Deepfake Detection Tool to All Adult Users; Lawmakers warn data protection rules don’t protect key sites; and Google’s Spam Policies Now Apply to Attempts to Manipulate AI.

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Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 15, 2026

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: The DHS Is Using Google to Spy on People Who Criticize ICE, Even Outside the US; No, Grandma, Brad Pitt Isn’t Pitching Medicare on Facebook; Trump Says He Discussed ‘Standard’ AI Safety Guardrails With Xi. There’s No Such Thing Maybe there should be; FCC Attempts to Solve Robocall Problem by Potentially Creating Even Bigger Privacy Problem; and Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw.

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Subjects: AI in Banking and Finance, Privacy, Search Engines, Search Strategies, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 9, 2026

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: Users lost $2.1 billion on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp in 2025; Meta and TikTok Are Getting Your Data From State Healthcare Sites: Report; Fake CAPTCHA scam turns a quick click into a costly phone bill; PA Rep. proposing regulations on how data from license plate readers is used; and Trump admin floats policy language limiting contractor say on agency uses of technology.

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Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet Trends, Privacy, Social Media, Technology Trends

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 2, 2026

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 experts figure out what’s real in the age of deepfakes; Hiding Bluetooth Trackers in Mail; 1,100 AI Trainers Were Fired After Blowing the Whistle on Meta’s Ray-Ban Privacy Problem; Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead; and Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet.

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Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media, Travel

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 25, 2026

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: We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem; Online Betting Is Fueling a Wave of Bankruptcies Among Young Americans; Anthropic’s Mythos Model Is Being Accessed by Unauthorized Users; Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight crime; and Sam Altman’s Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Company Gets in Bed With Zoom and Tinder.

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Subjects: AI, Big Data, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 18, 2026

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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Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 21 2026

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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Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 14, 2026

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: Scammers Stole Their Retirement Savings. Then the Tax Bill Arrived; Meta’s AI Deepfake Detection System Fails the Test; Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response releases cybersecurity module; Tech giants break silence on Anthropic; Where global economies sit in the AI stack; and Pentagon Reportedly Used Microsoft Workaround to Test OpenAI Models, Despite Ban.

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Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media
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