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It’s pretty hard to listen to anything about climate change, at least in the United States, and not hear something about the Green New...

How much do you really know about teen attitudes toward their devices and the role social media plays in their lives? Pop culture often...

In the early days of the web, the acronym “IRL” was frequently used to differentiate things “In Real Life” versus online. As the Internet...

It was McDormand’s parting shot, a chance to bring a relatively obscure legal term into the zeitgeist’s spotlight. After an impassioned...

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...

The upsides of GPS tracking are obvious to anyone who remembers the days of flipping one-handed through a Rand McNally Atlas while...

While I often promote mindfulness as a core tenet of a healthy privacy practice, there are other ways to bring mindfulness into our...

The humble password remains central to a healthy privacy practice. Like a mantra which calms the mind and centers our concentration, the...

When I launched The Privacy Guru blog in 2014, I sought to help people bring their intellect and awareness together in order to make...

Every day we use powerful technology to exercise our creativity, inform our understanding of the world, and take advantage of modern...

[Tassajara] I recently attended a yoga and meditation retreat at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center led by Bay Area yoga teacher James...

Developing our privacy awareness and privacy practice is like any new skill – it requires regular and diligent exercise to improve our...

By now, we’re all familiar with the language of marketing permission standards – opting-in and opting-out. To “opt-in” requires our...

“We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.” -Deepak Chopra The age old philosophical...

In this two-part series, we’re profiling several popular anonymous messaging platforms and discussing what to consider when interacting...