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Just because a technology can be built, is it acceptable?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Because tech can be developed, so it is -- offering 'innovation' we learn to hate… Twenty years ago, computer-generated robo-calls --calls made by a machine, aka ‘predictive dialing’ -- had not reached their adoption tipping point and family members still spoke on the telephone. Well, robo-calling was banned by the FTC in 2009.

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Older adults deserve more from media when it comes to scams

Aging in Place Technology Watch

A woman listened to a voice mail message saying that it was the FBI and that her identity had been stolen. That was the first and only robo-dialed call). category tags: fraud protection. A long WSJ article details how trusting people can be and why robocall scams work.

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