Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, 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 security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: You Should Opt-Out of Verizon’s Data-Collection Scheme Right Now; Crowd-Sourced Suspicion Apps Are Out of Control; Who owns our health data — and why we should care; and the White House Readies Plan to Boost Cybersecurity of Water Supply.

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