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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues August 5 2018

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 highlight of this week’s column: the FBI Releases Article on Securing the Internet of Things and Surprising Things the Government Knows About Americans.

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Subjects: Computer Security, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Energy, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues July 28 2018

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 highlight of this week’s column: the Supreme Court struggles to define ‘searches’ as technology changes, and how Google employees avoid phishing attempts with a $20 YubiKey security key.

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Subjects: Computer Security, Cybersecurity, Email Security, Healthcare, Privacy, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues July 22 2018

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 – a highlight of this week’s column is – Surveillance and Legal Research Providers: What You Need to Know

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Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Ethics, Government Resources, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

Surveillance and Legal Research Providers: What You Need to Know

Legal research companies are selling surveillance data and services to law enforcement agencies including ICE. Their participation in government surveillance raises ethical questions about privacy, confidentiality and financial support: How private is your search history when your legal research vendors also sell surveillance data? Are you funding products that sell your patrons’ and clients’ data to ICE and other law enforcement agencies? Law professor professor and faculty services librarian Sarah Lamdan’s article focuses on how librarians uphold their privacy and intellectual freedom standards when they rely on surveillance companies for their research resources.

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Subjects: Civil Liberties, Law Librarians, LEXIS, Online Legal Research Services, Privacy, Social Media, Westlaw

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues July 15 2018

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 – a highlight of this week’s column is a very useful article – 7 Alternative Search Engines That Value Privacy.

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Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Search Engines

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues July 7 2018

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. Please note these entries for actionable information that is valuable to multiple sectors (law, finance, government) – New survey shows executives heavily underestimate cybersecurity threats and Entity resolution is big business. There are more than 50 firms that sell some kind of service based on this.

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Subjects: Blockchain, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Mining, Economy, Privacy, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues June 30 2018

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 – please be sure to read this entry – FBI Active Shooter Study: Pre-Attack Observable Behaviors.

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Subjects: AI, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues June 24 2018

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 – please be sure to read this entry – 15 more default privacy settings you should change now on your TV, cellphone plan and more.

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Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, Government Resources, Healthcare, Privacy, Social Media

The Case of the Torn Presidential Record and the Future of Its Library

Brandon Wright Adler addresses the destruction of Presidential documents and records brought to our attention this past week in a rather startling article published by Politico – “The president’s unofficial ‘filing system’ involves tearing up documents into pieces, even when they’re supposed to be preserved.” As law librarians, we clearly understand the duty and responsibility to uphold the Presidential Records Act and to advocate that all such documents remain available to the public and researchers.

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Subjects: Digital Archives, Freedom of Information, Government Resources, KM, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues June 10 2018

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 – in this week’s column Pete highlights Cell Phone-Account Fraud, yet another facet of the weaponization of digital technology.

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Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Privacy
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