Monday, December 1st | 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | 20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor
On Monday Reporting Award Winner, Adam Tanner, will be visiting the Institute for an evening presentation on his book, What Stays in Vegas. Journalist Adam Tanner will discuss the trade and business of personal data. In his book, What Stays in Vegas, Tanner exposes the greatest threat to privacy today. Adam Tanner received the 2014 Reporting Award at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and is a Nieman fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University.
Currently, Adam Tanner is a Nieman fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University. Tanner is now studying the business of medical data. His latest research looks at the pharmaceutical data marketplace, the complex trade in personal medical information generated from pharmacy prescriptions, doctor visits, hospital stays and other medical treatments.
About the Book
What Stays in Vegas – The World of Personal Data –Lifeblood of Big Business — and the End of Privacy as We Know It:
In What Stays in Vegas, Adam Tanner exposes the greatest threat to privacy today. It’s not the NSA, but good-old American companies. Internet giants, leading retailers and other firms are gathering data behind the scenes with little oversight from anyone. “This is the information age, and information is power!” screamed DocuSearch, “America’s Premier Resource for Private Investigator Searches & Lookups” in 1996-and they were right.
More Info:
book: www.WhatStaysinVegas.US
twitter: datacurtain
articles: www.behindthedatacurtain.com
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