Saturday, May 4th, 2024
Special Edition: Investigating Online Shopping & How to Know Your Items are Legit
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If you’re like me, you shop online a lot. But here’s the thing: there aren’t many rules that popular online marketplaces like Amazon must follow when it comes to the products they sell, so you may be taking more of a risk than you realize when you buy.
Technology writer Stacey Higginbotham found this out first-hand when she took part in a Consumer Reports investigation into video doorbells sold on several major online marketplaces. We’ll talk about what they found, how these same risks exist across the online shopping space, and what you can look for to shop online in a more secure way.
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Guest: Stacey Higginbotham
Stacey Higginbotham has been writing about technology for 20 years in major publications such as Fortune, PCMag, IEEE Spectrum, and MIT Technology Review.
She has recently started her own consulting practice and is working with Consumer Reports on public policy work around security for connected devices.
In 2015, Stacey founded “The Internet of Things Podcast” and a weekly IoT newsletter where she explained the latest IoT news, and tested the latest in consumer IoT devices.
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