Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 5, 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: Your browser lets websites track you even without cookies; Smart Home Locks: What You Need To Know Before Installing; Patients, providers duped in records-and-payment scam; Google Ordered to Pay $314M for Misusing Android Users’ Cellular Data Without Permission; and Android 16 can warn you if a fake cell tower is trying to spy on you.