Digital food marketing to children: Exploitation, surveillance and rights violations

Food and drink marketing to children: a continuing scandal.

Digital marketing of unhealthy foods to Australian children and adolescents.

The emergence of new media-including branded websites, social media and mobile applications-has created additional touch points for unhealthy food and beverage companies to target children and adolescents. The aim of this study was to perform an audit of new media for three top selling food and beverage brands in Australia. The top selling brand in three of the most advertised food and beverage...

To quell obesity, who should regulate food marketing to children?

The global hegemony of the United States in the production and marketing of food, while a marvel of economic success, has contributed to the epidemic of obesity that is particularly afflicting children. So far the U.S. government has declined to regulate the aggressive ways in which food producers market high-energy, low-nutrition foods to young people. That public-health responsibility has bee...

Food marketing to children in the context of a marketing maelstrom.

Childhood obesity is a major public health problem in the United States, yet US children are targeted as never before with marketing for foods high in sugar, fat, salt, and calories. Food marketing to children is highly sophisticated, increasingly well-funded, and takes place within the context of a barrage of other kinds of child-targeted marketing. The proliferation and sophistication of elec...

Digital Rights Protection Digital Rights Protection *

Digital Rights Protection (DRP) is the broad class of technological, legal, and other regulatory means used to protect the rights of the owners of digital content, while simultaneously protecting the usage rights and the privacy of the users. This article briefly discusses the technological aspect of the issue.