Digital surveillance is ubiquitous. Corporate snoops collect information about everything we do, everywhere we go, and everyone we communicate with. Then they compile it, store it, and use it against us. Increasingly, companies exploit this information to set individualized prices based on personal...
  • delirious_owl
    9·
    5 months ago

    an algorithmic pricing model used by the Princeton Review—a test prep company—allegedly charged higher prices to Asian American customers

    Fuck that’s racist

  • delirious_owl
    7·
    5 months ago

    in 2019, investigative journalists revealed that prices on the Target app increased depending on a user’s location. The app collected the user’s geolocation information. The company charged significantly higher prices when a user was in a Target

    That’s actually really clever. Evil. But clever.

  • delirious_owl
    5·
    5 months ago

    The FTC sent these orders to Mastercard, Revionics, Bloomreach, JPMorgan Chase, Task Software, PROS, Accenture, and McKinsey & Co.

    These eight firms play a key role in the collection, analysis, and weaponization of your private information: they are the “middlemen” that provide surveillance pricing tools to other companies.

    Named. Now shame.

  • delirious_owl
    1·
    5 months ago

    So, if they can’t fingerprint you then do you get the high price, the low price, or something in the middle?