--- description: Adam Tanner is the author of Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Adam Tanner ## Adam Tanner Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Adam Tanner is the author of [_Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0807033340/?tag=timecom-20) ## Adam Tanner Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Jan 9, 2017 ### [How Your Medical Data Fuels a Hidden Multi-Billion Dollar Industry](https://time.com/4588104/medical-data-industry/) We need better privacy protections [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/adam-tanner/","name":"Adam Tanner"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/adam-tanner/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/adam-tanner/"},"name":"Adam Tanner","jobTitle":null,"description":"Adam Tanner is the author of Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records","url":"https://time.com/author/adam-tanner/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```