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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 8, 2025

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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.

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Breaking: Federal Judge Pauses Parts of USAID Shutdown in Response to Lawsuit–democracyforward.org

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Washington, DC Today, the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia stated it will issue a temporary restraining order regarding various aspects of the Trump-Vance administrations attempt to shutter the operations of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The ruling came in as the Trump administration was seeking to place more than 2200 US AID workers on leave and in response to a legal challenge filed by Democracy Forward and Public Citizen Litigation Group, on behalf of

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Section 230 Immunizes OnlyFans for User-Uploaded Video (Again)–Doe v. Fenix

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A prior ruling summarized the facts the court describes as “harrowing”: In April 2022, Defendant Bendjy Charles (Charles) and Romelus raped Plaintiff. Charles and Romelus filmed each other while they raped Plaintiff. Romelus subsequently uploaded video footage of Romelus and Charles raping Plaintiff, with Plaintiff crying and screaming while they raped her, to OnlyFans and began to sell the footage on OnlyFans as a part of a monthly subscription package.