Your personal data, including your precise location, browser history, and even your mouse movements, is being used by some companies to show different prices for the same products—a phenomenon the FTC has dubbed “surveillance pricing.”
According to a new FTC report, retailers are hiring “intermediary firms” to algorithmically tweak and target their prices.
“Instead of a price or promotion being a static feature of a product, the same product could have a different price or promotion based on a variety of inputs—including consumer-related data and their behaviors and preferences, the location, time, and channels by which a consumer buys the product,” the FTC says.
Companies like Amazon been doing this for a long time. Yes, it’s discriminatory. No one has done anything about it. And they probably won’t for at least another 4 years.
If we’re lucky. And even if we have another president and that president is a Democrat and even if that president has a Democrat super majority in the House and Senate, I am not convinced that they will prioritize breaking up monopolies.
Well, they certainly didn’t for the last 20 years. They tried in the last 4 but were ultimately too inefficient and time ran out. But they definitely won’t in the next 4.
Correct, DNC is there to ensure that Democrats never do anything too much to hurt the owner class.
100%
They only take action to punch down any potential actual left-leaning candidates, ensuring no progressive representation ever gathers power stations.
Why 4 years? Edit: oh… Oh no.
Buckle up, buckaroos!