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Month: October 2023

Cybercrime / Privacy

Robot fear is approaching 1960s-levels; that might be a distraction

October 30, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

When I logged onto a Zoom meeting today, I was offered the chance to let the company use some kind of whiz-bangy AI magic that would summarize the meeting for me.  Cool? Maybe. Artificial intelligence? Not by my definition. New? Not really.  New name? Absolutely I’m sure you’ve had this [Keep reading]

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Someone made a deepfake of my voice for a scam! (With permission…)

October 20, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

 “I need help. Oh my God! I hit a woman with my car,” the fake Bob says. “It was an accident, but I’m in jail and they won’t let me leave unless I come up with $20,000 for bail …Can you help me? Please tell me you can send [Keep reading]

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‘Why weren’t we prepared for a superpower like this being unleashed?’ – the Debugger podcast with Kashmir Hill

October 5, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

I’m very excited for this episode of Debugger. Kashmir Hill has broken many of the most important privacy stories in the past twenty years, many of them in the pages of The New York Times. She’s been chasing after a secretive company named Clearview AI story for years, and recently [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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