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Month: July 2025

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As animal shelters burst at the seams, musicians fall silent. It’s not an accident

July 28, 2025 Bob Sullivan 0

Animal shelters stuffed full of abandoned dogs. Musicians earning 0.005 cents per song.  It might be easy to blame these things on cold-hearted pet owners or cheap music fans. That’s a distraction.  Scratch just beneath the surface and you can clearly see there is a dangerous systemic problem plaguing both [Keep reading]

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Podcast: Minnesota assassin used data brokers as a deadly weapon

July 2, 2025 Bob Sullivan 0

I’ve called Amy Boyer the first person killed by the Internet…with only a hint of a stretch in my assertion.  She was stalked and murdered by someone who tracked her down using a data broker …in 1999.  I told her story in a documentary podcast called “No Place to Hide” [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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