News Subscription Privacy

Privacy policy analysis for digital news and journalism subscriptions

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Companies Reviewed
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Avg Score
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Category Privacy Overview

News subscriptions reveal your political interests, worldview, and intellectual curiosities through reading patterns. Major publications track which articles you read, how long you spend on each, what you share, and what topics capture your attention. This data powers personalized content but also fuels advertising systems, and ownership by media conglomerates means your reading habits may be shared across portfolios of publications and platforms.

New York Times
25

Extensive reading analytics, cross-property tracking across Games, Cooking, Wirecutter, and The Athletic.

Reading Tracking Cross-Product Data
Wall Street Journal
20

News Corp data ecosystem spans multiple publications. Business reader profiling for targeted advertising.

News Corp Sharing Business Profiling
Washington Post
22

Bezos ownership raises Amazon integration questions. Political interest data from reading patterns.

Bezos Ownership Political Profiling
The Athletic
28

NYT-owned sports platform collects team loyalty and regional sports interest data.

NYT Data Practices Sports Interests