The New Oil<p><a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> Can Rip You Off. Here's How California Lawmakers Want to Stop <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/PriceDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PriceDiscrimination</span></a></p><p><a href="https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2025/03/13/ai-can-rip-you-off-heres-how-california-lawmakers-want-to-stop-price-discrimination" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">themarkup.org/artificial-intel</span><span class="invisible">ligence/2025/03/13/ai-can-rip-you-off-heres-how-california-lawmakers-want-to-stop-price-discrimination</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/SurveillancePricing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillancePricing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>
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The New Oil<p>Bill aims to prohibit '<a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/SurveillancePricing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillancePricing</span></a>' based on customers’ online behavior</p><p><a href="https://www.kpbs.org/news/quality-of-life/2025/02/28/bill-aims-to-prohibit-surveillance-pricing-based-on-customers-online-behavior" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">kpbs.org/news/quality-of-life/</span><span class="invisible">2025/02/28/bill-aims-to-prohibit-surveillance-pricing-based-on-customers-online-behavior</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a></p>
The New Oil<p>States eye bans on ‘<a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/SurveillancePricing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillancePricing</span></a>’ that exploits personal data</p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/states-eye-bans-on-surveillance-pricing-that-exploits-personal-data/ar-AA1zrJeq" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/news/politics/st</span><span class="invisible">ates-eye-bans-on-surveillance-pricing-that-exploits-personal-data/ar-AA1zrJeq</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a></p>
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:<p>RE: <a href="https://archive.is/cXBvB" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.is/cXBvB</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>One thing to maybe note though is — this has been going on for a very long time.</p><p>Some online store have been doing this this for a long time — ex: Amazon.</p><p>And even physical stores have been doing this for even longer — usually the ones with some type of sales-person or "agent".</p><p>Many suspected that computerized facial-recognition would eventually be used for this, too.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Spying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spying</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SurveillancePricing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillancePricing</span></a></p>
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:<p>“ Last fall, reports that Kroger was considering bringing facial recognition technology into its stores sparked outcry from lawmakers and customers.”</p><p>“They worried personalized data could be used to charge different prices for different customers based on their shopping habits, financial circumstances or appearance. Kroger, the country’s largest supermarket chain, had already been using digital price tags in its stores.”</p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/states-eye-bans-on-surveillance-pricing-that-exploits-personal-data/ar-AA1zrJeq" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/news/politics/st</span><span class="invisible">ates-eye-bans-on-surveillance-pricing-that-exploits-personal-data/ar-AA1zrJeq</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Spying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spying</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SurveillancePricing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillancePricing</span></a></p>
PeachMcD<p>Excellent piece about algorithmic price gouging (& why <a href="https://union.place/tags/CarbonCredits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonCredits</span></a> don't work) from Cory Doctorow <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> </p><p>" <a href="https://union.place/tags/SurveillancePricing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillancePricing</span></a>, supercharged by algorithms, represent a serious threat to 'prices,' which is the one thing that the econo-religious fundamentalists of the <a href="https://union.place/tags/capitaliss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitaliss</span></a> class value above all else."</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/24/gouging-the-all-seeing-eye/#i-spy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2024/07/24/gou</span><span class="invisible">ging-the-all-seeing-eye/#i-spy</span></a></p>
hyakinthos<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sigmoid.social/@oliversampson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>oliversampson</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> It’s also worth noting <a href="https://layer8.space/tags/Cloudflare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cloudflare</span></a>’s use of <a href="https://layer8.space/tags/personalizedPricing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>personalizedPricing</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240601161454/https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2024060116</span><span class="invisible">1454/https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website</span></a></p><p><a href="https://layer8.space/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a> was also caught <a href="https://layer8.space/tags/surveillancePricing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surveillancePricing</span></a> CDs and DVDs:</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210129175046/www.consumerreports.org/car-insurance/why-you-may-be-paying-too-much-for-your-car-insurance" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2021012917</span><span class="invisible">5046/www.consumerreports.org/car-insurance/why-you-may-be-paying-too-much-for-your-car-insurance</span></a></p><p>That’s a good read because it also goes into how insurance companies profile consumers on their likeliness to shop out insurance. The less likely, the higher your insurance premium will be.</p>
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