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EFF: “Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s goals for disintegrating our privacy in public. In the ad, disguised as a heartfelt effort to reunite the lost dogs of the country with their innocent owners, the company previewed future surveillance of our …
Google Blog: “Our Results about you tool can now help you find and request the removal of Search results containing your government-issued IDs, like a passport, driver’s license or social security number. Over 10 million people have used the ‘Results about you’ tool to control how their sensitive personal information appears online, like a phone …
MakeUseOf: “Browser extensions enhance the functionality of the browser, and most of us have at least one third-party add-on installed. I always keep a handful of Chrome extensions installed for productivity, and some of them are ones I genuinely can’t browse without. Ad blockers, full-page screenshot tools, price comparison trackers, they all seem harmless enough. …
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 7, 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 …
PCMag – “Biometric locks like face recognition are easy to set up—but thanks to a legal loophole, they’re easier for law enforcement to bypass than a passcode: “Using a face scan to unlock your phone and log in to accounts is easy to set up, but it’s not the best option for everyone. That’s because, …
“Tech Brew [reg reqd]: Getting locked out of your Apple Account is the digital equivalent of locking your keys in your car—except your car (iPhone) contains your entire life—including every photo you’ve ever taken. Getting back in isn’t always as quick and easy as calling roadside assistance: Apple’s verification process can often make DMV wait …
Vox – AI agents could change your life — if they don’t ruin it first. ChatGPT is boring compared to what comes next. The Atlantic [no paywall] – “The first signs of the apocalypse might look a little like Moltbook: a new social-media platform, launched last week, that is supposed to be populated exclusively by …
Wired: “ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn’t built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules.The face-recognition app Mobile Fortify, now used by United States immigration agents in towns and cities across the US, is not …
PCMag: “The next time you’re standing in a checkout line, imagine the cashier asking, “Would you like me to keep your credit card on file for future purchases?” That would feel odd—maybe even unsettling. Yet online, we agree to the same thing all the time when a browser offers to save our card details or …
MakeUseOf: “Your computer, whether it’s Windows-based or a Mac, is meant to be a well-oiled machine, whether it’s fresh out of the box or has logged hundreds of days of use. When it suddenly freezes, slows, or behaves as if it has a mind of its own, it’s easy to brush it off as wear …
Wired [no paywall]: “A new report from the Public Service Alliance finds state privacy laws offer public servants few ways to protect their private data, even as threats against them are on the rise…A new report published Tuesday finds that while violent threats to public servants across the US have been increasing, “comprehensive” state-level consumer …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 31, 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 …
