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Are you being exploited by AI-powered surveillance pricing? (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just one more reason why we should be keeping companies from collecting our data and looking like anyone else to them. Typically it is argued that data is subsidizing something, but here it is directly increasing your costs.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Corporations would literally beat down your door and rob your grandmother in front of you at gunpoint if it was ~~legal~~ profitable to do so.

We must demand regulation to reign in their greed.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago

But they don't, which means the market is working! /s