Adam Tanner
Fellow Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University
- Boston MA
A fellow at Harvard, Tanner chronicles the entrepreneurs and customers behind the multibillion dollar business of personal data
Media
Social
Biography
Adam Tanner is a fellow at Harvard University's Institute for Quantitative Social Science.
At Harvard since 2011, he has written What Stays in Vegas: The World of Personal Data-Lifeblood of Big Business-and the End of Privacy as We Know It, (PublicAffairs, 2014), which the Washington Post named one of 50 books notable works of non-fiction in 2014, and The Big Health Data Bazaar: Uncovering a Multi-Billion Dollar Trade in Our Medical Secrets (Beacon Press, Jan. 2017).
He served as a Reuters news agency correspondent from 1995-2011, including as bureau chief for the Balkans (2008-2011) and San Francisco bureau chief (2003-2008). He was also posted in Berlin, Moscow and Washington D.C. He has appeared on CNN, Bloomberg TV, MSNBC, CNBC, NPR, the BBC and VOA, and written for magazines including Scientific American, Forbes and Slate.
At Harvard since 2011, he has written What Stays in Vegas: The World of Personal Data-Lifeblood of Big Business-and the End of Privacy as We Know It, (PublicAffairs, 2014), which the Washington Post named one of 50 books notable works of non-fiction in 2014, and The Big Health Data Bazaar: Uncovering a Multi-Billion Dollar Trade in Our Medical Secrets (Beacon Press, Jan. 2017).
He served as a Reuters news agency correspondent from 1995-2011, including as bureau chief for the Balkans (2008-2011) and San Francisco bureau chief (2003-2008). He was also posted in Berlin, Moscow and Washington D.C. He has appeared on CNN, Bloomberg TV, MSNBC, CNBC, NPR, the BBC and VOA, and written for magazines including Scientific American, Forbes and Slate.
Industry Expertise
Internet
Direct Marketing
Information Technology and Services
Information Services
Pharmaceuticals
Hospitality
Market Research
Health Care - Services
IT Services/Consulting
Gambling and Casinos
Areas of Expertise
Data
Casinos
Marketing
Privacy
Government
Ethics
Business
Information Technology
Social Science
Data Mining
Europe
Italy
Germany
the Balkans
Russia
India
Accomplishments
NYU Carter Journalism Institute 2014 "Reporting Award" to focus on the business of medical data
2014-05-13
Awarded by New York University
Nieman Fellow, Harvard University
2011-01-01
Awarded by Harvard University
Affiliations
- Harvard University
- Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University
Links
Event Appearances
Does Corporate America Know Too Much About You?
http://brightsightgroup.com/speakers/adam-tanner/#video Zocalo Public Square
2014-09-25
Sample Talks
Empowering Customers
Why giving consumers a choice when gathering their personal data makes the best business sense, and what can go wrong for those who are not transparent in their marketing.
Behind the Data Curtain
Tales of genius, deceit, crime, lust, and race in the mega business of personal information.
Style
Availability
- Keynote
- Moderator
- Panelist
- Workshop Leader
- Host/MC
- Author Appearance
