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# Workshop: Opportunities in the fight for information safety, SRCCON, Minneapolis, July 2025
- URL: https://www.gazzetta.xyz/srccon-2025/
- Published: 2025-07-09T12:53:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-09T14:30:58.000Z
- Description: Too much data.
- Author: Patrick Boehler
- Tags: Events

Heading to Minneapolis for SRCCON 2025 to [discuss information safety](https://www.gazzetta.xyz/newsroom-pivot-program/) with Yanan Sun and Holmes Wilson.

News organizations have been collecting excessive user data on our sites for way too long. We enable third-party harvesting through external platforms and leaky tools, all for marginal optimization gains. Marketing cookies track our readers across the web, building detailed profiles for advertisers – and that ad revenue keeps declining anyway. What if our data gathering became much more intentional and targeted?

I can't see the U.S. adopting GDPR-style protections anytime soon (or ever). But maybe we journalists here could impose data minimization standards on ourselves as part of a duty of care to audiences. Do best practices exist? What would that look like? 

Join us if you're attending tomorrow. I'll share what we learn in my next newsletter.