Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health/medical, 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 our privacy and security is diminished, often without our situational awareness. Note – two highlights of this week’s column: As Russians hack the US grid, a look at what’s needed to protect it; and DARPA is racing against time to develop a tool that can spot ‘deepfakes’.

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