As NY Times Examines Privacy, It Turns Focus Inward, Too
As the newspaper examines privacy practices, it's turning its gaze inward, too, wrote New York Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger as part of the initiative that posted numerous opinion pieces Wednesday and Thursday. The company has "significantly reduced the amount and…
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type of data shared with social media companies. We put in place stronger controls to limit data shared with third parties through advertisements," he wrote. He said the paper averaged 24 web-tracking "cookies" in articles on a single topic, five more than Financial Times reports on the same topic and fewer than half that of The Washington Post and News Corp.'s The Wall Street Journal, and compared with 83 at AT&T's CNN and 100 at Gannett's USA Today. The Times' control over data from the cookies "is often more limited than it seems because, in many cases, the news organizations that host the trackers don’t know what happens with that information once it is transferred to third parties," Sulzberger wrote. The Internet Association declined to comment. Later Thursday, FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel recommended another opinion piece in the package. "While we may have zero privacy, it doesn’t mean that we have given up our right to control our digital selves," said the commentary by Kara Swisher. "As tech marches on, that might be the one right that needs to be protected most of all." Swisher sought a national privacy law that's not as stringent as some European rules. Later, we couldn't find Rosenworcel's tweet, and her office confirmed that she accidentally deleted it.