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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 29, 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: Is Your Android TV Streaming Box Part of a Botnet?; FCC Corrects Course, Outlines Improved Cybersecurity Measures; Social data puts user passwords at risk in unexpected ways; Homeland Security Is Reportedly Probing Bitcoin Mining Giant Bitmain for National Security Reasons; and Senator urges CBP to quit using tech to track and detain ‘suspicious’ drivers.

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Subjects: Copyright, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Education, Email Security, Privacy, Social Media, Travel, United States Law

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.

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

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 15, 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: Don’t Get Tricked by Fake Amazon Reviews This Black Friday; Meta makes billions from scam ads on Facebook, Instagram: Report; Digital IDs: The Future of Identity Documents; New Google Lawsuit May End Massive Text Phishing Operations; and Google Drive Will Use AI To Turn Lengthy PDFs Into Short Audio Summaries.

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Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media, Technology Trends, United States Law

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 11, 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: People are poorly equipped to detect AI-powered voice clones; Meta [Facebook, Instagram] is preparing another way to show you targeted ads and you can’t opt out; Gmail stopped loading hidden trackers when I changed this one setting; Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security; and Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT.

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Subjects: AI, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, Financial System, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media, Technology Trends, Travel

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 3, 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: Meta Will Start Using Your AI Chats to Target Ads at You; Chatbots Are Trapping Us With Endless Engagement Prompts; How to deactivate AI on your Android phone; Apple, Google Remove ICE Tracking Apps; and Tile Tracking Tags Can Be Exploited by Tech-Savvy Stalkers, Researchers Say.

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Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Free Speech, Privacy, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 27, 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. Four highlights from this week: 48% of Cybersecurity Bosses Failed to Report a Breach This Year; LinkedIn will use your data to train their AI starting Nov 3; Reuters Asked AI Bots to Scam the Elderly. They Obliged; and This is the fastest way to tell if a photo is AI-generated.

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

Political witch hunts and blacklists: Donald Trump and the new era of McCarthyism

Shannon Brincat, Frank Mols and Gail Crimmins report that a modern-day political inquisition is unfolding in “digital town squares” across the United States. The slain far-right activist Charlie Kirk has become a focal point for a coordinated campaign of silencing critics that chillingly echoes one of the darkest chapters in American history. They state “this is far-right “cancel culture”, the likes of which the US hasn’t seen since the McCarthy era in the 1950s.”

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Subjects: Congress, Free Speech, Legal Research, Social Media, United States Law

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 13, 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: How much is the Facebook settlement payout per person?; New Study: How Often Do AI Assistants Hallucinate Links? (16 Million URLs Studied); It Is Happening – Don’t cross a U.S. border without a “perfect burner phone”; When typing becomes tracking; and Study reveals widespread silent keystroke interception.

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

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 6, 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: Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps; Amazon to Enter the AI Agent Race in a Big Way, Internal Documents; Selling Surveillance as Convenience; Wired, Business Insider Editors Duped By Completely Bogus ‘AI’ Using ‘Journalist’ Who Made Up Towns, People That Don’t Exist; and Verizon Finally Restores Service in Most Areas After Day-Long Outage.

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Subjects: AI, Computer Security, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 30, 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: Meta might be secretly scanning your phone’s camera roll – how to check and turn it off; Shadow IT Is Expanding Your Attack Surface. Here’s Proof; ScamAgent shows how AI could power the next wave of scam calls; FEMA now requires disaster victims to have an email address; and the FCC is Cracking Down on Robo Callers Blocking 1,200 Phone Providers Over Spam Calls.

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