On April 10th, Last Week Tonight aired an episode on Data Brokers. The Tech Policy Lab played a role in that episode with Co-Director Ryan Calo serving as a consultant. The show also used a method to explain concerns with data brokering, which appears to be a method that was developed by Co-Director Yoshi Kohno, Faculty Associate Franzi Roesner, and Paul Vines.

For more information about this method, please see the links below:

https://adint.cs.washington.edu/

https://www.washington.edu/news/2017/10/18/for-1000-anyone-can-purchase-online-ads-to-track-your-location-and-app-use/

https://news.cs.washington.edu/2017/10/18/cybersecurity-researchers-uncover-how-online-advertising-can-be-used-to-track-individuals/

To view the episode on YouTube, visit:

https://youtu.be/wqn3gR1WTcA