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Month: May 2025

Cybercrime / Privacy

Trying to avoid a heart attack, Instagram attacked me with ads

May 28, 2025 Bob Sullivan 0

It’s almost like they want you to be sick… I went for a relatively routine cardiovascular screening the other day, and I’ve never hated social media more. Before I even walked into the exam room, I was pounded by ads telling me the test I was taking wasn’t good enough [Keep reading]

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New scam alert: Families searching for lost pets targeted

May 20, 2025 Bob Sullivan 0

“Lost pet. Help find Fido!” I’m sure you’ve seen signs like that taped on telephone polls, plastered all over bulletin boards at coffee shops, maybe even popped into your mailbox.  There’s just something about lost pet signs that always make my heart sink. I immediately picture a family, worried sick, [Keep reading]

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Can the new pope give Big Tech and AI a conscience?

May 15, 2025 Bob Sullivan 0

The AI Pope? The Pope for AI times, anyway. Just over a century ago, Pope Leo XIII stood for workers and humanity over the creeping inhumanity of the Industrial Revolution.  It seems Leo the XIV is spoiling for the same kind of fight, and boy do we need that. It’s [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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