In this week’s update, we flutter from “ almost everything” to the butterfly effect.

In between those extremes, we find a little tit-for-tat going on between the US and China that could impact everything from your cloud compute to your phone.

We have facial recognition software being rejected by performers and embraced by you local shops.

From there the sad story of the CISO first attacked by a nation-state and then by the US government.

And finally, we have a story about some phone hacking software that itself got hacked.

It’s all here in a firecracker of a 4th of July edition of the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update.

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