The Weaponization of Surveillance Pricing

'The genesis of surveillance pricing can be traced back to the dawn of the e-commerce era, when goliath corporations like Amazon began experimenting with dynamic pricing strategies. In the now ancient year of 2000, Amazon faced public backlash when customers discovered the company was showing different prices for identical DVDs based on user profiles. This incident, while drawing critical comments from consumers, also foreshadowed the sophisticated pricing mechanisms that would come to dominate online shopping. It also represented a time when the public wasn’t entirely desensitized to the Orwellian privacy practices of Big Tech and actually cared about such oversight from Big Data…'

https://open.substack.com/pub/tbot/p/the-weaponization-of-surveillance
#breakthestate #anarchy