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Month: October 2024

Gotchas / Consumer

Finally, the end of subscription traps is in sight. Unless new FTC rule is put on hold

October 24, 2024 Bob Sullivan 0

It’s an irony too obvious to avoid writing: a group of big tech firms has sued to put the new “Click-to-Cancel Rule” on hold. Enough. We should hang up on them. Maybe I’m just unlucky, but I often pull my smartphone out of my pocket and I’m aghast to see [Keep reading]

Cybercrime / Privacy

The dark deepfakes I’m most worried about

October 18, 2024 Bob Sullivan 0

Everyone should be concerned about deepfakes and voice cloning; what’s difficult is deciding how concerned to be.  When it comes to the use of AI in crime, I think we have a 5-alarm fire on our hands. I just came back from a week of talks at the University of [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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