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You need to read this (Privacy for Humans By Alexandra Ross). The world is changing and YOU need to remain in charge of your life's privacy settings. This book is a helpful guide to both THINK about it...and DO SOMETHING about it.
- DCSTPAUL
I found Privacy for Humans to be a nightlight in the darkness; through the use of simple explanations and diagrams, the book suggests the adoption of a "mindfulness" approach and suggests steps you can take to protect yourself.
- Deborah Davis
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aaross25
Sep 21, 20183 min
New Insights into Teen Screen Time
How much do you really know about teen attitudes toward their devices and the role social media plays in their lives? Pop culture often...
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aaross25
Jul 13, 20182 min
Being Mindful of the Impacts of a Digital Life
In the early days of the web, the acronym “IRL” was frequently used to differentiate things “In Real Life” versus online. As the Internet...
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aaross25
Mar 16, 20182 min
Inclusion Riders and the Mindful Use of Influence
It was McDormand’s parting shot, a chance to bring a relatively obscure legal term into the zeitgeist’s spotlight. After an impassioned...
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aaross25
Feb 16, 20183 min
Attention: You Are Now Entering a “No Phone Zone”
If you dream of a whole day without your digital device at hand, you’re probably like a lot of people who feel their smartphone has taken...
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aaross25
Feb 2, 20184 min
Physical Fitness vs. Privacy Fitness: Location Data Risks
The upsides of GPS tracking are obvious to anyone who remembers the days of flipping one-handed through a Rand McNally Atlas while...
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aaross25
Aug 25, 20174 min
A Mindful Approach to Mentoring
While I often promote mindfulness as a core tenet of a healthy privacy practice, there are other ways to bring mindfulness into our...
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aaross25
Mar 24, 20174 min
Best Practices for Password Mindfulness
The humble password remains central to a healthy privacy practice. Like a mantra which calms the mind and centers our concentration, the...
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aaross25
Jun 17, 20164 min
Mindful Living Through the Intelligent Use of Technology
When I launched The Privacy Guru blog in 2014, I sought to help people bring their intellect and awareness together in order to make...
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aaross25
Nov 20, 20154 min
New Tools to Mindfully Manage Your Privacy
Every day we use powerful technology to exercise our creativity, inform our understanding of the world, and take advantage of modern...
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aaross25
Jun 26, 20153 min
Taking Retreat as Part of Our Privacy Practice
[Tassajara] I recently attended a yoga and meditation retreat at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center led by Bay Area yoga teacher James...
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aaross25
Mar 6, 20153 min
Honing Your Privacy Practice
Developing our privacy awareness and privacy practice is like any new skill – it requires regular and diligent exercise to improve our...
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aaross25
Feb 20, 20152 min
Using Privacy Techniques to “Opt-in” in to Mindfulness
By now, we’re all familiar with the language of marketing permission standards – opting-in and opting-out. To “opt-in” requires our...
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aaross25
Jul 25, 20144 min
Mindful Living: Balancing Your Online and Offline Life
“We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.” -Deepak Chopra The age old philosophical...
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aaross25
Mar 21, 20146 min
Anonymous App Round-up Part 2: Five Tips for Mindful Messaging
In this two-part series, we’re profiling several popular anonymous messaging platforms and discussing what to consider when interacting...
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