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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 13, 2026

Five highlights from this week: #FCC Proposal Could Ban Anonymous Burner Phones in US; Fighting #spyware An Update From #whatsapp Emergency Weather Alerts on #netflix There is a Growing Push to Get the FCC To Mandate Alerts on Streaming; The Pope’s AI Warning Could Help Workers Seek Religious Exemptions From Using AI; and If you don't fall for these extortionists' calls, they'll show up with USB sticks.

Posted in: AI, #cybercrime Cybersecurity, Legal Research, Privacy

https://www.llrx.com/2026/06/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-june-13-2026/

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

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.

Posted in: #ai #cryptocurrency #cybercrime Cybersecurity, #privacy Search Engines, Social Media

https://www.llrx.com/2026/06/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-june-6-2026/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 29, 2026

Five highlights from this week: Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks beginning in 2010, Dies at 93; California Sues Owner of Former #23andme Troops’ phones leaked location data to foreign adversaries; #FBI Warns Companies About Ransom Gang’s #Fake IT Support Tactics; and #Crypto Security Pioneer: 'I Now Consider All of Decentralized Finance #defi Unsafe’.

Posted in: AI, Cryptocurrency, Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Privacy

https://www.llrx.com/2026/05/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-may-29-2026/

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

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

Posted in: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Legal Research, #privacy Search Engines, #SEO Social Media

https://www.llrx.com/2026/05/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-may-23-2026/

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

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 #Robocalls Problem by Potentially Creating Even Bigger Privacy Problem; and FCC Attempts to Solve Robocall Problem by Potentially Creating Even Bigger Privacy

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

https://www.llrx.com/2026/05/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-may-15-2026/

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

Four highlights from this week: Users lost $2.1 billion on #Facebook, #instagram #WhatsApp in 2025; #Meta and #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 (#LPR)
is used; and Trump admin floats policy language limiting contractor say on agency uses of technology.

Posted in: #AiResearch #cybercrime Cybersecurity, Internet Trends, #Privacy Social Media, Technology Trends

https://www.llrx.com/2026/05/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-may-9-2026/

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

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.

Posted in: Cybersecurity

https://www.llrx.com/2026/05/pete-recommends/

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

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.

Posted in: AI, Big Data, Civil Liberties, #cybercrime Cybersecurity, #healthcare #Privacy Search Engines, Social Media

https://www.llrx.com/2026/04/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-april-25-2026/

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

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.

Posted in: #AI #cybercrime Cybersecurity, Privacy, Social Media

https://www.llrx.com/2026/04/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-april-18-2026/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 11, 2026

Five highlights from this week: As the Federal Government Rushes Toward #AI Here Are Three Cautionary Tales; Combating #cybercrime and #fraud A unified approach; #Signal messages on an iPhone have been harvested despite app security; #Anthropic Says Its Latest AI Model Is Too Powerful to Be Released; and Cybersecurity Alert: Criminals Are Now Using #Emoji to Avoid Detection.

Posted in: AI, Criminal Law, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Email Security, Financial System, #Privacy

https://www.llrx.com/2026/04/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-april-11-2026/