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Part of a healthy privacy practice is engaging online with intent, making sure that when we share, we SEE clearly. But even the most...

The relationship between privacy and secrecy is more complex than we realize. In fact, secrecy may have a well-deserved place in the...

With great power comes the responsibility to discern when and how to use such power. As we enter an age where the stuff of speculative...

Shouldn’t the technology which touches all of our lives include perspectives across the gender spectrum? Wouldn’t we collectively benefit...

In the two years since our first post on privacy and the Internet of Things, the number of “smart devices” on the market has exploded....

The first blockbuster augmented reality (AR) game is here, and with it has come profound real-world privacy and security issues. Pokémon...

Will the upcoming fashion weeks in New York, London, and Milan put privacy protection on the runway? Perhaps not (yet!), but privacy is...

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

If you spend most of your days outside of the privacy profession, the term “data governance” may not be familiar. Here’s a top-level...

Imagine you’ve just been in a car accident. You’re sore, disoriented, and it’s obvious your car’s totaled. Soon, law enforcement arrives....

Social media’s profitability relies on the personal information we share, but what happens when we become more mindful of what we publish...

Modern day matchmaking is big business, and the search for true love online has produced big data which is also deeply personal. While...

Year over year, the amount of information we share with companies have grown, as have high-profile privacy concerns. In 2016, hackers are...

An increasing number of products aimed at entertaining and educating children are now network-enabled. Innovative toy designers are...

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

At the heart of every paradox is self-contradiction, and we seldom contradict ourselves more than when we go online. Despite our...

We have all, at one point or another in our lives, experienced panic. Panic is defined as “sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often...

Every day we move faster into a future where our reality—from big data analytics to ubiquitous surveillance—appears to outpace the law....

Learning to protect and nurture a child involves a myriad of factors including nutrition, ecology, education, media, and technology....

Facial recognition’s roots are more than fifty years old, but advances have made it a profound new frontier in the debate around privacy...