The End of Privacy Podcast, Episode 3: The News Business’ Dirty Data Secret

Advertisers and data brokers collect information about you as you move from site to site across the internet – including your hobbies, your politics, your religion and race, how much debt you have, what health issues you look at and much more.

There are dozens of data trackers on most news sites, too. But most news organizations only reveal that in the middle of impenetrable privacy policies. Is it time for news publishers to be more transparent about their role in how your data is collected?

With Josh Sterns, director of journalism and sustainability at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation; Cooper Quintin, staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation; Wendy Davis, senior writer at MediaPost; Tim Libert, researcher at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania; and Mike Zaneis, executive VP and general counsel at IAB. Music by Bobby McElver.

Listen and subscribe on iTunes, Soundcloud or Stitcher.

This podcast first appeared here.

Abraham Hyatt is a former contributing editor at Circa, and the editor and co-founder of Oakland Police Beat, an ONA award finalist that covered police misconduct in Oakland, Calif. He previously worked as the managing editor of ReadWrite.com and Oregon Business magazine. Follow him on Twitter @abrahamhyatt.