Media Minutes for September 11, 2009
Producer: Stevie Converse and Candace Clement
Length: 5:03

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Privacy watchdogs want Congress and the FTC to create a system that would keep online marketing tactics transparent, accountable and respectful of user privacy. And following an investigation by the newspaper Stars and Stripes, the Pentagon was forced to terminate a journalist profiling program that rated reporters based on their likelihood of giving the military friendly coverage.

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Stars and Stripes Exposes Pentagon Secret Media Analyst Program

• Files Prove Pentagon Is Profiling Reporters
• Army Used Profiles to Reject Reporters
• Military Terminates Rendon Contract
• Pentagon's New Watchdog

Watchdogs and Congress Target Online Behavioral Marketing

• Consumer Federation of America
• Fact Sheet on Protecting Consumer Privacy in Online Behavioral Tracking and Targeting
• Legislative Primer on Protecting Consumer Privacy in Online Behavioral Tracking and Targeting
• Letter to Reps. Boucher and Stearns on Protecting Consumer Online Privacy
• Tracking Your Every Click

Media Minutes Extra!
Pentagon's Secret Journalist Profiling Program Revealed
Kevin Baron talks about the Rendon Group, the controversial public relations firm that was compiling the journalist profiles, and about continuing the investigation into the embedded journalist program.

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