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It can be all too easy to succumb to cynicism or apathy when it comes to how our information is collected, used, and sold online. We shop, we share, and we may trade our personal data for the convenience the...

How much do you really know about teen attitudes toward their devices and the role social media plays in their lives? Pop culture often simplifies our perceptions of younger generations and the complex relationship they have with our networked world,...

Talking with your kids about online privacy isn’t necessarily high on the list of back-to-school tasks, but it’s an essential part of every child’s digital literacy. I’ve advocated raising kids with privacy awareness in the past, but recent research...

Image credit geneticliteracyproject.org Have you spent time tracing the branches of your family tree? According to an article in Time Magazine, genealogy has become the “second most popular hobby in the U.S. after gardening” and represents a billion-dollar industry. Our...

In the early days of the web, the acronym “IRL” was frequently used to differentiate things “In Real Life” versus online. As the Internet expands into every corner of our world, the border between the actual and the virtual grows...