Rivka Tadjer is a writer who specializes in the sociological implications of the techno-centric era--how our behavior is changing. She has devoted a lot of ink to the issues of privacy, security, and identity.

Tadjer has written for newspapers such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times Op Ed page, as well as many business papers, magazines and online outlets, including: The Wall Street Journal Interactive, Business Week, Red Herring, and Working Woman, and CBS MarketWatch. She has been a columnist for The Wall Street Journal Interactive, as well as for several tech magazines. She has written for TV news, including doing on-air appearances for Internet privacy issues, and authored a non-fiction book for Microsoft Press, called Small Business Solutions for Financial Management, to help entrepreneurs compete with large corporations.

After they started trying to dose the press corps in New York with Anthrax, Tadjer started writing novels. (see SIGN-OF-THE-TIMES STORIES).

Tadjer also does consulting work for select high-tech companies, marketing firms, and non-profit organizations in the arts and education. Projects include: Working toward making the voting system in this country less hackable and able to provide voters with a receipt; and marketing for a natural medicine/nutrition practitioner who specializes in Eastern methods applied to Western principles, and creating sustainable agriculture. She is the Secretary of the Board of Directors at Woodstock Day School, a progressive, independent private school.

Tadjer's hometown is Washington, D.C. She went to Boston University and then University of Maryland, studying philosophy and journalism, when those two things weren't mutually exclusive. She is a first-generation American who lived in L.A. briefly, Manhattan for most of her adult life, until she scurried to live on high ground in Woodstock, NY.