Maryland Becomes First US State to Ban Surveillance Pricing for Groceries | Common Dreams
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A new law will ban retailers from using shoppers' personal data to hike grocery prices. But consumer advocates argue that it contains far too many loopholes that companies could exploit.​

A new law will ban retailers from using shoppers’ personal data to hike grocery prices—but consumer advocates warn it contains loopholes that companies could exploit.

  • boogiebored@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    all companies are in the data business now. that IS the business.

    i told a friend maybe 2 years ago that mcdonalds app and changing to digital drive thru menus would mean they could change prices at any time and even per customer. he thought it would be “too difficult”

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      he thought it would be “too difficult”

      A lot of people’s reluctance to focus on privacy is because they don’t understand the scale of the problem or the downstream consequences.

      That isn’t too surprising, it’s an incredibly complex topic and the companies that benefit from our collective ignorance go out of their way to gaslight everyone.

      They don’t call it a ‘We’re stealing all of you data’ disclosure they call it a ‘Privacy Notice’. They announce that they’ve added the option to opt-out (a Dark Pattern) of some new privacy destroying feature instead of announcing the privacy destroying feature. Bit by bit, people are bombarded with a bunch of messaging that makes them think that companies are looking to protect your privacy.

      “Your privacy is valuable to us” is probably the most honest thing they say, it is incredibly valuable… many hundreds of billions of dollars worth of value.