The Center for Hospitality and Sport Management will be hosting author Adam Tanner on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 in the Academic Bistro to discuss his new book,  “What Stays in Vegas: The World of Personal Data – Lifeblood of Big Business – and the End of Privacy as We Know It,”

 

The lecture will be followed by a Las Vegas inspired happy hour. 

 

Adam Tanner is a fellow at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He has been at Harvard since the 2011-12 academic year when he was a Nieman fellow.He recently completed “What Stays in Vegas: The World of Personal Data – Lifeblood of Big Business – and the End of Privacy as We Know It,” a book to be published Sept. 2nd by PublicAffairs (Perseus Group). 

 

From 1995 until 2011 Tanner worked for Reuters, including as bureau chief for the Balkans and in San Francisco. In other postings he served in Germany, Russia and Washington D.C. He was part of the Reuters team cited in 2012 as a Pulitzer finalist in international reporting. He has appeared on the BBC and National Public Radio, and writes for Forbes, Worth and other magazines. 

 

The 2014 winner of the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute’s Reporting Award, Tanner is now researching the business of medical data. In his latest work, he is looking at the pharmaceutical data/information marketplace and the complex trade in personal medical details generated from doctor visits, hospital stays and other medical treatments. He speaks from time to time at Harvard and other university campuses and is giving the final keynote speech at the June 2014 Patients Privacy Rights conference in Washington D.C. He also gives lectures on international Voyages to Antiquity cruises.