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Month: May 2023

Cybercrime / Privacy

Two-thirds use tech to avoid face-to-face interactions; the truth we don’t want to face

May 22, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

Machines dehumanize people.  I’ve long had a mental experiment in mind that I’d love to pull off one day — force people to walk at a grocery store the way they drive on a highway.  You know: cut each other off, flip the bird, breathe (literally) down someone’s neck on [Keep reading]

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Grieving wife, stepdaughter learn dark truth about missing cremated remains

May 19, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

By my calculations … at the low end, she may have stolen 3% of the population of Montrose. Last week I introduced the story of Diana McBride, who had just begun a quest to discover the truth after her step-dad’s cremains went missing following his untimely death. When Diana’s mom, [Keep reading]

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When ‘Cactus’ died, he was supposed to be cremated. Instead, something horrible happened

May 12, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

It did keep plaguing me, you know, what really happened? Did they mix up his body? Did they lose his body? Little did I know what really happened. Really the horror, the nightmare was yet to come. I’ve hosted nearly 75 Perfect Scam podcasts during the past two years, but [Keep reading]

Gotchas / Consumer

Hundreds of supplement companies warned about ads; is this any way to protect consumers?

May 5, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

I’m often asked, “Isn’t there a truth in advertising law?!!??” by consumers who feel cheated by a company that embedded a gotcha in its advertisements.  My sad answer is often some variation of “No, not really.” At least that’s been the on-the-ground reality for some time.  There’s a glimmer of [Keep reading]

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Rules for Whistleblowers: a Handbook for Doing What’s Right

May 2, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

When Whistleblower Francis Haugen came forward and testified before Congress about what she thought was going wrong inside Facebook, she changed big tech forever. But how? I recently talked about this with Stephen Kohn, author of the book, Rules for Whistleblowers, A Handbook for Doing What’s Right, and many, many [Keep reading]

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BOB SULLIVAN is a veteran journalist and the author of four books, including the 2008 New York Times Best-Seller, Gotcha Capitalism, and the 2010 New York Times Best Seller, Stop Getting Ripped Off! His latest, The Plateau Effect, was published in 2013, and as a paperback, called Getting Unstuck in 2014. He has won the Society of Professional Journalists prestigious Public Service award, a Peabody award, and The Consumer Federation of America Betty Furness award, and been given Consumer Action’s Consumer Excellence Award.

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