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Interactive Food and Beverage Marketing: Targeting Children and Youth in the Digital Age

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Written by Jeff Chester, Center for Digital Democracy, and Kathryn Montgomery, American University
A report from Berkeley Media Studies Group

The nation's largest telephone and cable companies have a vision for the Internet's future. Verizon, AT&T (formerly SBC), Comcast, and Bell South want to create a privately run and branded "pay-as-you-go" Internet, making everything we do online a "billable," revenue-generating service. Our every cyberspace move will be tracked and stored so we can be better marketed to (a data collection system that might even rival the NSA's!). Those with the deepest pockets--think corporate special interest groups and major advertisers--will get preferred treatment.

Protecting Privacy, Promoting Consumer Rights and Ensuring Corporate Accountability