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Month: March 2025

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Cruel, relentless online criminals leave behind enduring scars for family, friends too

March 19, 2025 Bob Sullivan 0

How relentless and cruel are online criminals? I recently heard a story about an elderly victim whose family took his phone and Internet access away so he could not longer talk to the criminals who were stealing his money. So they hired a taxi driver who traveled an hour to [Keep reading]

Cybercrime / Privacy

We’re spying on students. Is that safe or dangerous?

March 12, 2025 Bob Sullivan 0

I spent last week interviewing the parents of a teenager who committed suicide after a terrible encounter with sextortion. The entire episode began and ended in a single, horrible night on Instagram.  I’ll tell their full story another day, but the interviews are haunting me. Can’t something be done? Companies [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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