Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 1, 2021 – 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: 48 Advocacy Groups Call on the FTC to Ban Amazon Surveillance; Facial recognition surges in retail stores; Fight for Control Threatens to Destabilize and Fragment the Internet; and Here’s how much victims have saved in ransom payments by using these free decryption tools.