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Debugger is a podcast about the intersection of technology and democracy, produced with help from Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics.

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We arrived at this situation ‘because there were no rules to stop it’

April 12, 2021 Bob Sullivan 0

This is the beginning of the transcript for part two of our Debugger podcast on “The Original Sin of the Internet.” The technologists who built the Internet were naive, and their failure of imagination led us all down a path to rampant fraud, abuse, and misinformation.  In part 2 of [Keep reading]

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‘We haven’t looked at privacy. As a crisis’ — The Original Sin of the Internet

April 12, 2021 Bob Sullivan 1

This is part 3 of the transcript for the Debugger podcast, “What is the Original Sin of the Internet.” Somehow we went from bankrupt sock puppets to a fundamental attack on free will to billions of dollars of research designed to find psychological vulnerabilities and hack people’s minds. Bill’s version [Keep reading]

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Why the collapse of the dot-com bubble led to the surveillance economy — and the techlash

April 12, 2021 Bob Sullivan 0

  This is part two of a six-part series based on my new podcast, Debugger. I am on a quest to find the Original Sin of the Internet with a series of experts who were there at the beginning of the Internet age. Next up: Bill Woodcock from the Packet [Keep reading]

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The state of Internet: ‘Huffing and puffing, blowing bubbles into dirty water’

April 11, 2021 Bob Sullivan 0

First up: Richard Purcell, one of the first privacy executives. From him, you’ll learn as much about working on the railroad as you will about the abuse of power through privacy invasions. But before that, I try to explain what I mean by “original sin” in the introduction, and why [Keep reading]

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Welcome to Debugger, a podcast sponsored by Duke University

April 11, 2021 Bob Sullivan 1

Is there an Original Sin of the Internet? Join me on a journey to find out. Today I’m sharing a passion project of mine that’s been years in the making. I’m lucky. I’m getting old. Much better than the alternative! My career has spanned such a fascinating time in the [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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