The Federal Trade Commission’s initial findings from its surveillance pricing market study revealed that details like a person’s precise location or browser history can be frequently used to target individual consumers with different prices for the same goods and services.

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    28 days ago

    Well, if we still have a nation four years from now, someone who cares about consumer protection might do something about that.

    I’ll try hard not to become a troll posting this under every headline, but that’s my reaction to just about every article now of this sort.

    Company, Republican Politician, or Billionaire does something clearly unethical and probably illegal, which is officially noted and reported on.

    Yeah, and? It’s not a non-wealthy citizen, a democrat, or an entity targeted by maga as woke, so we can be sure the impact of this information will be most likely zero.

    We are on the stupidest, bitterest timeline.