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[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 9 points 3 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@discuss.online 7 points 3 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.

[-] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Price scamming

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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@discuss.online 1 points 3 months ago

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

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