BIG MEDIA ON BIG DATA: ADAM TANNER'S "OUR BODIES OUR DATA"

Beacon recently published Adam Tanner’s Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records. Exploring how selling patient medical data has become big business, the book has received major media pick up. The Associated Press hosted a Q&A with Tanner that was cross-posted by The Washington Post.  Original pieces ran in The Boston Globe, Time.com, and The Century Foundation, while Scientific American ran an excerpt, and additional coverage came out in the Guardian, Mic.com, and The Center for Investigative Reporting.  The author was also interviewed on regional NPR programs in New York, Tulsa, Dallas, Boston, and Fairbanks, as well as numerous other radio shows, with more still to come.